Nature is always mysterious and secret in her use of means; and art is always likest her when it is most inexplicable.

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one.

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.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.

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