We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.Collection: Architecture
The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.Collection: Relationship
Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.Collection: Brainy
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.Collection: Success
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.Collection: Poetry
Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.Collection: Great
Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.Collection: Patience
It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.Collection: Architecture
Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.Collection: Experience
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.Collection: Art
The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.Collection: Education
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.Collection: Good
Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.Collection: Inspirational
Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.Collection: Happiness
No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.Collection: Architecture
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.Collection: Art
It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.Collection: Nature
He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.Collection: Anger
In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.Collection: Great
The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.Collection: Education
Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.Collection: Great
Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.Collection: Music
I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.Collection: Great
The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.Collection: Nature
Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.Collection: Beauty
To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.Collection: Poetry
There is no wealth but life.Collection: Life
The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.Collection: Science
The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.Collection: Strength
A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.Collection: Money
It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.Collection: Architecture
A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.Collection: Great
In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.Collection: Success
To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.Collection: Education
You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.Collection: Peace
Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.Collection: Education
No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.Collection: Great
There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.Collection: Good
All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.
All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.
Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.
Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.
He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.