The beginning and almost the end of all good law is that everyone shall work for their bread and receive good bread for their work.

The time is probably near when a new system of architectural laws will be developed, adapted entirely to metallic construction.

All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be effort, and the law of human judgment, mercy.

It is a good and safe rule to sojourn in every place as if you meant to spend your life there, never omitting an opportunity of doing a kindness, or speaking a true word, or making a friend.

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.

He thinks by infection, catching an opinion like a cold.