I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship.

To fill the hour; that is happiness to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.

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

The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.

I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.

Excellence is the new forever.

Throw a stone into the stream and the ripples that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence.