All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another, and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it.

Greatness is not a teachable nor gainable thing, but the expression of the mind of a God-made great man.

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

Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.

Science is the knowledge of constant things, not merely of passing events, and is properly less the knowledge of general laws than of existing facts.

No one can ask honestly or hopefully to be delivered from temptation unless he has himself honestly and firmly determined to do the best he can to keep out of it.

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