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

So far as I have myself observed, the distinctive character of a child is to live always in the tangible present.

The greatest reward is not what we receive for our labor, but what we become by it.

You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.

Morality does not depend on religion.

The power of painter or poet to describe what he calls an ideal thing depends upon its being to him not an ideal but a real thing. No man ever did or ever will work well but either from actual sight or sight of faith.