If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of antiquity.

"Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any living creature is "What do you like?" Tell me what you like, I'll tell you what you are."

All great song, from the first day when human lips contrived syllables, has been sincere song.

There is no process of amalgamation by which opinions, wrong individually, can become right merely by their multitude.

In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong.

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

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.