Architecture concerns itself only with those characters of an edifice which are above and beyond its common use.

It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

Repose demands for its expression the implied capability of its opposite,--energy.

To speak and act truth with constancy and precision is nearly as difficult, and perhaps as meretorious, as to speak it under intimidation or penalty

Every hue throughout your work is altered by every touch you add in other places.

The secret of language is the secret of sympathy, and its full charm is possible only to the gentle