You cannot institute, without peril of charlatanism.

The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

Greek architecture is the flowering of geometry.

We shall one day learn to supersede politics by education. What we call our root-and-branch reforms of slavery, war, gambling, intemperance, is only medicating the symptoms. We must begin higher up, namely, in education.

The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.

The virtue of art lies in detachment, in sequestering one object from the embarrassing variety. Until one thing comes out from theconnection of things, there can be enjoyment, contemplation, but no thought.

Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due to the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it