In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

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

Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth.

That which is required in order to the attainment of accurate conclusions respecting the essence of the Beautiful is nothing morethan earnest, loving, and unselfish attention to our impressions of it.

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.

The beginning and almost the end of all good law is that everyone shall work for their bread and receive good bread for their work.

However good you may be you have faults; however dull you may be you can find out what some of them are, and however slight they may be you had better make some - not too painful, but patient efforts to get rid of them.