The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

When God shuts a door, He opens a window.

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.

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

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

In mortals there is a care for trifles which proceeds from love and conscience, and is most holy; and a care for trifles which comes of idleness and frivolity, and is most base. And so, also, there is a gravity proceeding from thought, which is most noble; and a gravity proceeding from dulness and mere incapability of enjoyment, which is most base.