The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.

The science of design, or of line-drawing, if you like to use this term, is the source and very essence of painting, sculpture, architecture... Sometimes... it seems to me that... all the works of the human brain and hand are either design itself or a branch of that art.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?

It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the limbs of man.

A great sculpture can roll down a hill without breaking.

Can't you see the angel imprisoned in the block of stone trying to get out? I am trying to free him