Life is a magic vase filled to the brim, so made that you cannot dip from it nor draw from it; but it overflows into the hand that drops treasures into it. Drop in malice and it overflows hate; drop in charity and it overflows love.

It’s unwise to pay too much, but it’s worse to pay too little.

What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do

If there be any one principle more widely than another confessed by every utterance, or more sternly than another imprinted on every atom of the visible creation, that principle is not liberty, but law.

Architecture is the work of nations

They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.