Architecture is the work of nations

It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

The Divine mind is as visible in its full energy of operation on every lowly bank and mouldering stone as in the lifting of the pillars of heaven, and settling the foundation of the earth.

Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him.

Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those material sources which are attractive to oar moral nature in its purity and perfection.

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.

There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals.