He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.

The finer the nature, the more flaws it will show through the clearness of it; and it is a law of this universe that the best things shall be seldomest seen in their best form.

You will never love art well until you love what she mirrors better.

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

Architecture concerns itself only with those characters of an edifice which are above and beyond its common use.

The greatest glory of a building is not in its stones, nor in its gold. Its glory is in its Age, and in that deep sense of voicefulness, of stern watching, of mysterious sympathy... which we feel in walls that have long been washed by the passing waves of humanity.

No girl who is well bred, 'kind, and modest, is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want of manners, or of heart.