Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

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

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

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

Every great person is always being helped by everybody for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

A great thing can only be done by a great person and they do it without effort.

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

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.

No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.