The power of association is stronger than the power of beauty; therefore, the power of association is the power of beauty.

The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.

He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.

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

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.

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

The history of humanity is not the history of its wars, but the history of its households.