Civilization is the making of civil persons.

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadow ceases to be enjoyed as light.

Great art is precisely that which never was, nor will be taught, it is preeminently and finally the expression of the spirits of great men.

To follow art for the sake of being a great man, and therefore to cast about continually for some means of achieving position or attracting admiration, is the surest way of ending in total extinction.

An artist should be well read in the best books, and thoroughly high bred, both in heart and bearing. In a word, he should be fit for the best society, and should keep out of it.

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of antiquity.

An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.

Architecture is the work of nations.