You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.

Production does not consist in things laboriously made, but in things serviceably consumable; and the question for the nation is not how much labour it employs, but how much life it produces.

No divine terror will ever be found in the work of the man who wastes a colossal strength in elaborating toys; for the first lesson that terror is sent to teach us is, the value of the human soul, and the shortness of mortal time.

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

Great art is precisely that which never was, nor will be taught, it is preeminently and finally the expression of the spirits of great men.

Living without an aim, is like sailing without a compass.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.