So far as I have myself observed, the distinctive character of a child is to live always in the tangible present.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

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.

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.

[For men] to feel their souls withering within them, unthanked, to find their whole being sunk into an unrecognized abyss, to be counted off into a heap of mechanism numbered with its wheels, and weighed with its hammer strokes - this, nature bade not, - this, God blesses not, - this, humanity for no long time is able to endure.

When we build, let us think that we build forever.

The truth of Nature is a part of the truth of God; to him who does not search it out, darkness; to him who does, infinity.