The truth of Nature is a part of the truth of God; to him who does not search it out, darkness; to him who does, infinity.
Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty.
When we build, let us think that we build forever.
Morality does not depend on religion.
It’s unwise to pay too much, but it’s worse to pay too little.
It was stated, . . . that the value of architecture depended on two distinct characters:--the one, the impression it receives from human power; the other, the image it bears of the natural creation.