"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."
"We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears!"
"Great nations write their autobiography in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and the book of their art."
"No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple."
"The proof of a thing being right is that it has power over the heart; that it excites us, wins us, or helps us."
"The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it."
"Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning."
"To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion all in one."
"In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children."
"Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent efforts."
"There is nothing in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and he who considers price only is that man's lawful prey."
"Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort."
"Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become."
"Seven Lamps of Architecture (1849) ‘The Lamp of Memory’ sect. 7 Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them."
"This is the true nature of home -- it is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from injury, but from all terror, doubt and division."
"Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them."
"No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art."
"Do not think of your faults, still less of others' faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes."
"No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder."
"There is nothing in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and he who considers price only is that man's lawful prey."
"In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong, honor that; try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes."
"The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes."
"What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do."
"All great art is the expression of man's delight in God's work, not his own."
"Do not think of your faults, still less of others' faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes."