That which is required in order to the attainment of accurate conclusions respecting the essence of the Beautiful is nothing morethan earnest, loving, and unselfish attention to our impressions of it.

Everything that you can see in the world around you presents itself to your eyes only as an arrangement of patches of different colors.

Society has sacrificed its virtues to the Goddess of Getting Along.

We must note carefully what distinction there is between a healthy and a diseased love of change; for as it was in healthy love of change that the Gothic architecture rose, it was partly in consequence of diseased love of change that it was destroyed.

I cannot but think it an evil sign of a people when their houses are built to last for one generation only.

Every duty we omit obscures some truth we should have known.

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.