Architecture is the work of nations

Death is not a journey into an unknown land; it is a voyage home. We are going, not to a strange country, but to our fathers house.

He who has learned what is commonly considered the whole art of painting, that is, the art of representing any natural object faithfully, has as yet only learned the language by which his thoughts are to be expressed.

We may, without offending any laws of good taste, require of an architect, as we do of a novelist, that he should be not only correct, but entertaining.

The step between practical and theoretic science, is the step between the miner and the geologist, the apocathecary and the chemist.

Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated.