Our purity of taste is best tested by its universality, for if we can only admire this thing or that, we maybe use that our cause for liking is of a finite and false nature.

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

Architecture ... the adaptation of form to resist force.

Science studies the relations of things to each other: but art studies only their relations to man.

Race is precisely of as much consequence in man as it is in any animal.

There is no law of history any more than of a kaleidoscope.

All great art is the expression of man's delight in God's work, not his own.