The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.

An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those material sources which are attractive to oar moral nature in its purity and perfection.

The history of humanity is not the history of its wars, but the history of its households.