The man who says to one, go, and he goeth, and to another, come, and he cometh, has, in most cases, more sense of restraint and difficulty than the man who obeys him.

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

You can only possess beauty through understanding it.

Give me some mud off a city crossing, some ochre out of a gravel pit and a little whitening and some coal dust and I will paint you a luminous picture if you give me time to gradate my mud and subdue my dust.

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.