Don't just look at buildings ... watch them.

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

We must note carefully what distinction there is between a healthy and a diseased love of change; for as it was in healthy love of change that the Gothic architecture rose, it was partly in consequence of diseased love of change that it was destroyed.

God gives us always strength enough, and sense enough, for what He wants us to do; if we either tire ourselves or puzzle ourselves, it is our own fault.

So far as I have myself observed, the distinctive character of a child is to live always in the tangible present.

No false knight or lying priest ever prospered, I believe, in any age, but certainly not in the dark ones. Men prospered then, only in following openly-declared purposes , and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.