For, though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained currency, because for the moment it symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer. The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.

The life of labor does not make men, but drudges.

Art, in the artist, is proportion, or, a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details. And the wonder and charm of it is the sanity in insanity which it denotes.

Nature is what you may do. There is much you may not do.

To accomplish excellence or anything outstanding, you must listen to that whisper which is heard by you alone.

A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us and not done by us.

Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.