A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future.

Drawing is a means of obtaining and communicating knowledge

To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.

The Bible is the one Book to which any thoughtful man may go with any honest question of life or destiny and find the answer of God by honest searching.

Architecture concerns itself only with those characters of an edifice which are above and beyond its common use.

When you pay too much, you lose a little money - that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought is incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do.