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

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

When you pay too much, you lose a little money - that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought is incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do.

No picture can be good which deceives by its imitation, for the very reason that nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

No changing of place at a hundred miles an hour will make us one whit stronger, or happier, or wiser. There was always more in the world than man could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better for going fast. The really precious things are thought and sight, not pace. It does a bullet no good to go fast; and a man, if he be truly a man, no harm to go slow; for his glory is not at all in going, but in being.

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.

Science has to do with facts, art with phenomena. To science, phenomena are of use only as they lead to facts; and to art, facts are of use only as they lead to phenomena.