God will put up with a great many things in the human heart, but there is one thing that He will not put up with in it--a second place. He who offers God a second place, offers Him no place.

You cannot have good architecture merely by asking people's advice on occasion. All good architecture is the expression of national life and character; and it is produced by a prevalent and eager national taste, or desire for beauty.

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

Ornamentation is the principal part of architecture, considered as a subject of fine art.

I know well that happiness is in little things.

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts.