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.

Labour without joy is base. Labour without sorrow is base. Sorrow without labour is base. Joy without labour is base.

Men are merely on a lower or higher stage of an eminence, whose summit is God's throne infinitely above all; and there is just as much reason for the wisest as for the simplest man being discontent with his position, as respects the real quantity of knowledge he possesses.

Though you may have known clever men who were indolent, you never knew a great man who was so; and when I hear a young man spoken of as giving promise of great genius, the first question I ask about him always is, Does he work?

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

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

The last act crowns the play.