The spirit needs several sorts of food of which knowledge is only one.

There is no wealth but life.

We must note carefully what distinction there is between a healthy and a diseased love of change; for as it was in healthy love of change that the Gothic architecture rose, it was partly in consequence of diseased love of change that it was destroyed.

The man who says to one, go, and he goeth, and to another, come, and he cometh, has, in most cases, more sense of restraint and difficulty than the man who obeys him.

Death is not a journey into an unknown land; it is a voyage home. We are going, not to a strange country, but to our fathers house.

If some people really see angels where others see only empty space, let them paint the angels: only let not anybody else think they can paint an angel too, on any calculated principles of the angelic.

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