Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Sir, I shall not defeat you - I shall transcend you.

There can be no economy where there is no efficiency.

We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance.

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

What is wanted in architecture, as in so many things, is a man. ... One suggestion might be made-no profession in England has done its duty until it has furnished a victim. ... Even our boasted navy never achieved a great victory until we shot an admiral. Suppose an architect were hanged? Terror has its inspiration, as well as competition.

Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.