There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.