An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.
The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.
Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated.
Humanity and Immortality consist neither in reason, nor in love; not in the body, nor in the animation of the heart of it, nor in the thoughts and stirrings of the brain of it;--but in the dedication of them all to Him who will raise them up at the last day.