Men have commonly more pleasure in the criticism which hurts than in that which is innocuous, and are more tolerant of the severity which breaks hearts and ruins fortunes than of that which falls impotently on the grave.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser...and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic.

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.

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.