A proper building grows naturally, logically, and poetically out of all its conditions.

It was the spirit animating the mass and flowing from it, and it expressed the individuality of the building.

Our architecture reflects truly as a mirror.

What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy, and what is art but a curse when they touch not the heart and impel it not to action?

A proper building grows naturally, logically, and poetically out of all its conditions.

How strange it seems that education, in practice, so often means suppression: that instead of leading the mind outward to the light of day it crowds things in upon it that darken and weary it.

The architect who combines in his being the powers of vision, of imagination, of intellect, of sympathy with human need and the power to interpret them in a language vernacular and time--- is he who shall create poems in stone.