No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

There is rough work to be done, and rough men must do it; there is gentle work to be done, and gentlemen must do it.

Architecture ... the adaptation of form to resist force.

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.

To yield reverence to another, to hold ourselves and our lives at his disposal, is not slavery; often, it is the noblest state in which a man can live in this world.

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

"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."