The great cry that rises from all our manufacturing cities, louder than the furnace blast, is all in very deed for this -- that we manufacture everything there except men.

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

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.

There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals.

What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do

If men lived like men indeed, their houses would be temples -- temples which we should hardly dare to injure, and in which it would make us holy to be permitted to live; and there must be a strange dissolution of natural affection, a strange unthankfulness for all that homes have given and parents taught, a strange consciousness that we have been unfaithful to our fathers honor, or that our own lives are not such as would make our dwellings sacred to our children, when each man would fain build to himself, and build for the little revolution of his own life only.