No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.

The best thing in life aren't things.

It is perhaps the principal admirableness of the Gothic schools of architecture, that they receive the results of the labour of inferior minds; and out of fragments full of imperfectionraise up a stately and unaccusable whole.

What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant well-being, and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.

The only absolutely and unapproachably heroic element in the soldier's work seems to be-that he is paid little for it-and regularly.

To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.