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.
Modern science gives lectures on botany, to show there is no such thing as a flower; on humanity, to show there is no such thing as a man; and on theology, to show there is no such thing as a God. No...
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.
No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry. All admit irregularity as they imply change; and to banish imperfection is to dest...
No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.
Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.
No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trus...
No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.
Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.
Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.
There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
God alone can finish.
I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.
No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.
Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.
It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.
To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.