The time is probably near when a new system of architectural laws will be developed, adapted entirely to metallic construction.

If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; if food, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for it: toil is the law.

An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.

Science lives only in quiet places, and with odd people, mostly poor.

The step between practical and theoretic science, is the step between the miner and the geologist, the apocathecary and the chemist.

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.