... Amongst all the mechanical poison that this terrible nineteenth century has poured upon men, it has given us at any rate one antidote - the Daguerreotype. (1845)
If the thing is impossible, you need not trouble yourselves about it; if possible, try for it.
It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.
Architecture is the work of nations
When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work.
An artist should be well read in the best books, and thoroughly high bred, both in heart and bearing. In a word, he should be fit for the best society, and should keef out of it.