It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

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.

I believe that there is no test of greatness in periods, nations or men more sure than the development, among them or in them, of a noble grotesque, and no test of comparative smallness or limitation, of one kind or another, more sure than the absence of grotesque invention, or incapability of understanding it.

Christian faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows. Standing without you see no glory, nor can possibly imagine any. Nothing is visible but the merest outline of dusky shapes. Standing within all is clear and defined; every ray of light reveals an army of unspeakable splendors.

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.

That man is always happy who is in the presence of something which he cannot know to the full, which he is always going on to know.