Race is precisely of as much consequence in man as it is in any animal.

Civilization is the making of civil persons.

Your labor only may be sold, your soul must not.

There is rough work to be done, and rough men must do it; there is gentle work to be done, and gentlemen must do it.

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.

The question is not what man can scorn, or disparage, or find fault with, but what he can love, and value, and appreciate.

Architecture ... the adaptation of form to resist force.