“Nothing is ever done beautifully which is donein rival ship: or nobly, which is done in pride.”

“Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.”

“It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.”

“Education...is a painful, continual and difficult work to be done in kindness, by watching, by warning,... by praise, but above all -- by example.”

“It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.”

“The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most.”

“What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant ''well-being,'' and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.”