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

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

Once thoroughly our own, the knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.

There is no process of amalgamation by which opinions, wrong individually, can become right merely by their multitude.

You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.

There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals.