The force of the guinea you have in your pocket depends wholly on the default of a guinea in your neighbour's pocket. If he did not want it, it would be of no use to you.

The time is probably near when a new system of architectural laws will be developed, adapted entirely to metallic construction.

There are no laws by which we can write Iliads.

Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty.

Greater completion marks the progress of art, absolute completion usually its decline.

"Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any living creature is "What do you like?" Tell me what you like, I'll tell you what you are."

You may sell your work, but not your soul.