A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly, but take every building to pieces, and challenge every feature. Learn to distinguish the curious from the beautiful. Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind. 'Think simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

Consider everything in the nature of a hanging fixture a weakness, and naked radiators an abomination.

All the more I study Nature do I revere God, because Nature is all the body of God we will ever know.

When anyone becomes an authority, that is the end of him as far as development is concerned.

Architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived.