A man is born an artist as a hippopotamus is born a hippopotamus; and you can no more make yourself one than you can make yourself a giraffe.

All art is but dirtying the paper delicately.

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

There is no solemnity so deep, to a right-thinking creature, as that of dawn.

A man is one whose body has been trained to be the ready servant of his mind; whose passions are trained to be the servants of his will; who enjoys the beautiful, loves truth, hates wrong, loves to do good, and respects others as himself.

We are, after all, only trustees of the wealth we possess. Without the community and its resources... there would be little wealth for anyone.

I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.