But I beg you to observe that there is a wide difference between being captains or governors of work, and taking the profits of it. It does not follow, because you are general of an army, that you are to take all the treasure, or land, it wins; (if it fight for treasure or land); neither, because you are king of a nation, that you are to consume all the profits of the nation's work.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

The secret of language is the secret of sympathy, and its full charm is possible only to the gentle

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.

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.

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.

It is better to be nobly remembered than nobly born.