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.

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

Great art is precisely that which never was, nor will be taught, it is preeminently and finally the expression of the spirits of great men.

Courage, so far as it is a sign of race, is peculiarly the mark of a gentleman or a lady; but it becomes vulgar if rude or insensitive, while timidity is not vulgar, if it be a characteristic of race or fineness of make. A fawn is not vulgar in being timid, nor a crocodile "gentle" because courageous.

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

It is only by labour that thought can be made healthy, and only by thought that labour can be made happy, and the two cannot be separated with impunity.