If i were asked to say what is at once the most important production of Art and the thing most to be longed for, I should answer, A beautiful House.

Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement.

With the arrogance of youth, I determined to do no less than to transform the world with Beauty. If I have succeeded in some small way, if only in one small corner of the world, amongst the men and women I love, then I shall count myself blessed, and blessed, and blessed, and the work goes on.

I love art, and I love history, but it is living art and living history that I love. It is in the interest of living art and living history that I oppose so-called restoration. What history can there be in a building bedaubed with ornament, which cannot at the best be anything but a hopeless and lifeless imitation of the hope and vigor of the earlier world?

It is for him that is lonely or in prison to dream of fellowship, but for him that is of a fellowship to do and not to dream.

Architecture would lead us to all the arts, as it did with earlier mean: but if we despise it and take no note of how we are housed, the other arts will have a hard time of it indeed.

To happy folkAll heaviest words no more of meaning bearThan far-off bells saddening the Summer air.