Do not think it wasted time to submit yourselves to any influence which may bring upon you any noble feeling.

What is the cheapest to you now is likely to be the dearest to you in the end.

The virtue of the imagination is its reaching, by intuition and intensity, a more essential truth than is seen at the surface of things.

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.

"Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any living creature is "What do you like?" Tell me what you like, I'll tell you what you are."

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!

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