The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality.

You cannot have good architecture merely by asking people's advice on occasion. All good architecture is the expression of national life and character; and it is produced by a prevalent and eager national taste, or desire for beauty.

Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him.

It is a matter of the simplest demonstration, that no man can be really appreciated but by his equal or superior.

People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser...and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic.

Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think.