Disorder in a drawing-room is vulgar; in an antiquary's study, not; the black battle-stain on a soldier's face is not vulgar, but the dirty face of a housemaid is.

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

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

Compulsory education... It is a painful, continual, and difficult work; to be done by kindness, by watching, by warning, by precept, and by praise, — but above all — by example.

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser...and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic.

You will never love art well until you love what she mirrors better.