Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

Civilization is the making of civil persons.

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

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

There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.

The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.

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

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.