“Maimed but still magnificent... Europe's mightiest medieval cathedral.” — R. W. Apple Quote

“Maimed but still magnificent... Europe's mightiest medieval cathedral.”

“The product of extraordinary wealth allied to a taste for the sumptuous.”

“Success in war underpins the claims to greatness of many presidents.”

“As a child, I was always intrigued by the question: what is it that distinguishes a city from a town? Is it size? Population? Location? When I asked grown-ups, the confident answer was that a city has to have a cathedral - which, to a child raised in a devout Catholic setting, made sense.”

“Every sport needs its temple, its cathedral.”

“He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.”