 No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple. |
| An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind. |
| Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light. |
| Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make. |
| Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons. |
| The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions. |
| A book worth reading is worth buying. |
| Nothing can be beautiful which is not true. |
| He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas. |
| When we build, let us think that we build for ever. |
| The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it. |
| In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it. |
| Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them. |
| Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are. |
| Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it. |
| He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin. |
| The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man. |
| It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect. |
| All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul. |
| Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them. |
