The best work never was and never will be done for money.

It is among children only, and as children only, that you will find medicine for your healing and true wisdom for your teaching.

The relative majesty of buildings depends more on the weight and vigour of their masses than any other tribute of their design.

Nothing can be true which is either complete or vacant; every touch is false which does not suggest more than it represents, and every space is false which represents nothing.

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

Ornamentation is the principal part of architecture, considered as a subject of fine art.

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.