If you can draw the stone rightly, everything within reach of art is also within yours.

The very cheapness of literature is making even wise people forget that if a book is worth reading, it is worth buying. No book is worth anything which is not worth much; nor is it serviceable, until it has been read, and re-read, and loved, and loved again; and marked, so that you can refer to the passages you want in it.

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.

To follow art for the sake of being a great man, and therefore to cast about continually for some means of achieving position or attracting admiration, is the surest way of ending in total extinction.

I cannot but think it an evil sign of a people when their houses are built to last for one generation only.

All traveling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity.

It was stated, . . . that the value of architecture depended on two distinct characters:--the one, the impression it receives from human power; the other, the image it bears of the natural creation.