Society has sacrificed its virtues to the Goddess of Getting Along.

Variety is a positive requisite even in the character of our food.

The art of drawing which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing...should be taught to every child just as writing is.

Ornamentation is the principal part of architecture, considered as a subject of fine art.

The true grotesque being the expression of the repose or play of a serious mind, there is a false grotesque opposed to it, which is the result of the full exertion of a frivolous one.

It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his reader is sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words, or his reader will certainly misunderstand them. Generally, also, a downright fact may be told in a plain way; and we want downright facts at present more than anything else.

When we build, let us think that we build forever.