Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate.

It's a luxury to be understood.

Every man is the inlet and may become the outlet of all there is in God.

The customer is the immediate jewel of our souls. Him we flatter, him we feast, compliment, vote for, and will not contradict.

The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect.

It is the property of the religious spirit to be the most refining of all influences. No external advantages, no culture of the tastes, no habit of command, no association with the elegant, or even depth of affection, can bestow that delicacy and that grandeur of bearing which belong only to the mind accustomed to celestial conversation,--all else is but gilt and cosmetics, beside this, as expressed in every look and gesture.

The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible.