History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.

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

A pattern is either right or wrong...it is no stronger than its weakest point.

The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.

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?

Don't think too much of style.

Free men must live simple lives and have simple pleasures.