As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime.

People cannot live by lending money to one another.

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.

Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves.

What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do

Nature is always mysterious and secret in her use of means; and art is always likest her when it is most inexplicable.