Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts.

We must note carefully what distinction there is between a healthy and a diseased love of change; for as it was in healthy love of change that the Gothic architecture rose, it was partly in consequence of diseased love of change that it was destroyed.

The scholar is early acquainted with every department of the impossible.

We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears!

Greater completion marks the progress of art, absolute completion usually its decline.

Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves.