“As sound philosophy is only sound sense spread out, so true criticism of great work is only right perception spread out.”

Presenting criticism as the careful articulation of accurate perception · Essay, Architectural Styles

• Art
• Truth

“Nations die of softening of the brain, which, for a long time, passes for softening of the heart.”

Warning against confusing sentimentality with genuine moral feeling · The Rod, the Root, and the Flower, Aurea Dicta CI

• Truth

“Nature fulfilled by grace is not less natural, but is supernaturally natural.”

Expressing Patmore's conviction that spiritual fulfilment completes rather than suppresses nature · The Rod, the Root, and the Flower, Aurea Dicta XVII

• Faith
• Nature