The outcome of the city will depend on the race between the automobile and the elevator, and anyone who bets on the elevator is crazy.

Imitate nothing except principle.

The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest.

Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use.

The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears - as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

Wherever human life is concerned, the unnatural stricture of excessive verticality cannot stand against more natural horizontality.