It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.

It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.

Know thyself, for through thyself only thou canst know God.

There is nothing that this age, from whatever standpoint we survey it, needs more, physically, intellectually, and morally, than thorough ventilation.

So far as I have myself observed, the distinctive character of a child is to live always in the tangible present.

An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.

Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work, his life is a happy one.