No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Next to the Word of God the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

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

Make big plans aim high in hope and work remembering that a noble logical diagram once recorded will not die.

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts.

Work alone is noble.

When a noble life has prepared old age it is not decline that it reveals but the first days of immortality.