In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects of faith to show their powers of painting.

Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves.

Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work, his life is a happy one.

The highest thoughts are those which are least dependent on language, and the dignity of any composition and praise to which it is entitled are in exact proportion to its dependency of language or expression.

Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.

In one point of view, Gothic is not only the best, but the only rational architecture, as being that which can fit itself most easily to all services, vulgar or noble.

Nothing can be true which is either complete or vacant; every touch is false which does not suggest more than it represents, and every space is false which represents nothing.