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

The spirit needs several sorts of food of which knowledge is only one.

In one point of view, Gothic is not only the best, but the only rational architecture, as being that which can fit itself most easily to all services, vulgar or noble.

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work.

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.

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.