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Never has interest in art been so high, and never has quality been so low.
People are always expecting to get peace in heaven: but you know whatever peace they get there will be ready-made. Whatever making of peace they can be blest for, must be on the earth here.
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
Do not think of your faults, still less of other's 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.
Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future.
God alone can finish.
Work first, and then rest.
There is no wealth but life.
The last act crowns the play.
See! This our fathers did for us.
Always stand by form against force.
Architecture is the work of nations
No day is without its innocent hope.
Absolute and entire ugliness is rare.
He who is not actively kind is cruel!
Morality does not depend on religion.
The best thing in life aren't things.
A splendour of miscellaneous spirits.
A book worth reading is worth buying.
When God shuts a door, He opens a window.
You may sell your work, but not your soul.
Genius is only a superior power of seeing.
Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.
Don't just look at buildings ... watch them.
Civilization is the making of civil persons.
All art is but dirtying the paper delicately.
The wisest men are wise to the full in death.
Order and system are nobler things than power.
If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.
One can't be angry when one looks at a penguin.
I know well that happiness is in little things.
There are no laws by which we can write Iliads.
Your labor only may be sold, your soul must not.
Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.
When we build, let us think that we build forever.
Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think.
When we build, let us think that we build for ever.
The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.
People cannot live by lending money to one another.
It is better to be nobly remembered than nobly born.
You can only possess beauty through understanding it.
Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.
He who offers God a second place offers Him no place.
To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.
God never imposes a duty without giving time to do it.
No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.
Engraving then, is, in brief terms, the Art of Scratch.
He thinks by infection, catching an opinion like a cold.
