The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

God alone can finish.

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.

There is no action so slight or so mean but it may be done to a great purpose, and ennobled thereby.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

Architecture ... the adaptation of form to resist force.

Mountains are to the rest of the body of the earth, what violent muscular action is to the body of man. The muscles and tendons of its anatomy are, in the mountain, brought out with force and convulsive energy, full of expression, passion, and strength.