An unimaginative person can neither be reverent nor kind.

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

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.

Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.

Greatness is not a teachable nor gainable thing, but the expression of the mind of a God-made great man.

As in the instances of alchemy, astrology, witchcraft, and other such popular creeds, political economy, has a plausible idea at the root of it.

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.