To do your own work well, whether it be for life or death.

The time is probably near when a new system of architectural laws will be developed, adapted entirely to metallic construction.

The question is not what man can scorn, or disparage, or find fault with, but what he can love, and value, and appreciate.

Every noble life leaves the fibre of it interwoven forever in the work of the world.

The man who can see all gray, and red, and purples in a peach, will paint the peach rightly round, and rightly altogether. But the man who has only studied its roundness may not see its purples and grays, and if he does not will never get it to look like a peach; so that great power over color is always a sign of large general art-intellect.

The true grotesque being the expression of the repose or play of a serious mind, there is a false grotesque opposed to it, which is the result of the full exertion of a frivolous one.

He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.