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

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself -my disgust at her barbarity -clumsiness -darkness -bitter mockery of herself -is the most desolating.

The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them.

It is perhaps the principal admirableness of the Gothic schools of architecture, that they receive the results of the labour of inferior minds; and out of fragments full of imperfectionraise up a stately and unaccusable whole.

Whenever you see want or misery or degradation in this world about you, then be sure either industry has been wanting, or industry has been in error.