It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

Unless we perform divine service with every willing act of our life, we never perform it at all.

Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

You may sell your work, but not your soul.

The true grotesque being the expression of the repose or play of a serious mind, there is a false grotesque opposed to it, which is the result of the full exertion of a frivolous one.