Obedience is, indeed, founded on a kind of freedom, else it would become mere subjugation, but that freedom is only granted that obedience may be more perfect; and thus while a measure of license is necessary to exhibit the individual energies of things, the fairness and pleasantness and perfection of them all consist in their restraint.

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.

There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

It is not the church we want, but the sacrifice; not the emotion of admiration, but the act of adoration; not the gift, but the giving.

When we build ... let it not be for present delights nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for, and let us think ... that a time is to come when these stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say as they look upon the labor, and the wrought substance of them, See! This our fathers did for us!