Whenever you see want or misery or degradation in this world about you, then be sure either industry has been wanting, or industry has been in error.

Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.

That which seems to be wealth may in verity be only the gilded index of far reaching ruin

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.

Like other beautiful things in this world, its end (that of a shaft) is to be beautiful; and, in proportion to its beauty, it receives permission to be otherwise useless. We do not blame emeralds and rubies because we cannot make them into heads of hammers.

No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.