The Best Thing In Life Aren't Things.

You Might Sooner Get Lightning Out Of Incense Smoke Than True Action Or Passion Out Of Your Modern English Religion.

Without Mountains The Air Could Not Be Purified, Nor The Flowing Of The Rivers Sustained.

Man's Only True Happiness Is To Live In Hope Of Something To Be Won By Him.

In One Point Of View, Gothic Is Not Only The Best, But The Only Rational Architecture, As Being That Which Can Fit Itself Most Easily To All Services, Vulgar Or Noble.

Painting With All Its Technicalities, Difficulties, And Peculiar Ends, Is Nothing But A Noble And Expressive Language, Invaluable As The Vehicle Of Thought, But By Itself Nothing.