As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime. In due time, when we have nothing better to set people to work at, it may be right to let them make lace and cut jewels; but as long as there are any who have no blankets for their beds, and no rags for their bodies, so long it is blanket-making and tailoring we must set people to work at, not lace.

You cannot have good architecture merely by asking people's advice on occasion. All good architecture is the expression of national life and character; and it is produced by a prevalent and eager national taste, or desire for beauty.

Architecture is the work of nations

That which seems to be wealth may in verity be only the gilded index of far reaching ruin

As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.