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

God is a kind Father. He sets us all in the places where he wishes us to be employed. He chooses work for every creature which will be delightful to them if they do it simply and humbly. He gives us always strength enough and sense enough for what he wants us to do.

Architecture concerns itself only with those characters of an edifice which are above and beyond its common use.

The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.

If we pretend to have reached either perfection or satisfaction, we have degraded ourselves and our work. God's work only may express that, but ours may never have that sentence written upon it, Behold it was very good.

Commerce is the agency by which the power of choice is obtained.

The art of nations is to be accumulative, just as science and history are; the work of living men not superseding, but building itself upon the work of the past.