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

The heart desires, the hand refrains. The Godhead fires, the soul attains.

The wind is not helpless for any man's need, Nor falleth the rain but for thistle and weed.

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.

Don't think too much of style.

Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement; a sanded floor and whitewashed walls and the green trees, and flowery meads, and living waters outside; or a grimy palace amid the same with a regiment of housemaids always working to smear the dirt together so that it may be unnoticed; which, think you, is the most refined, the most fit for a gentleman of those two dwellings?

There is no excuse for doing anything which is not strikingly beautiful.