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

Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.

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.

If there is a reason for keeping the wall very quiet, choose a pattern that works all over without pronounced lines...Put very succinctly, architectural effect depends upon a nice balance of horizontal, vertical and oblique. No rules can say how much of each; so nothing can really take the place of feeling and good judgement.

That talk of inspiration is sheer nonsense; there is no such thing. It is a mere matter of craftsmanship.

We are only the trustees for those who come after us.

Ornamental pattern work, to be raised above the contempt of reasonable men, must possess three qualities: beauty, imagination and order.