The noble grotesque involves the true appreciation of beauty.

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

I would have, then, our ordinary dwelling-houses built to last, and built to be lovely; as rich and full of pleasantness as may be within and without: . . . with such differences as might suit and express each man's character and occupation, and partly his history.

Better a child should be ignorant of a thousand truths than have consecrated in its heart a single lie.

It’s unwise to pay too much, but it’s worse to pay too little.

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.

God intends no man to live in this world without working, but it seems to me no less evident that He intends every man to be happy in his work.