Variety of uniformities makes complete beauty.

A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth

The secret of architectural excellence is to translate the proportions of a dachshund into bricks, mortar and marble.

Architecture aims at Eternity

Choose an author as you choose a friend.

He was of opinion that what we now vulgarly call the Gothick, ought properly and truly be named Saracenick Architecture refined by the Christians.

A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth.

Architecture aims at Eternity.

The contortions of the gargoyles were the only therapy we had.

I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.

[H]owever hard the road, however difficult today, tomorrow things will be better. Tomorrow may not be better, but we must believe that it will be.

I have legendary massive breakfasts at hotels. I don't hold back. I'll get there at 7A.M. and I'll be the last out at 11 A.M., having gone up and down the buffet seven times.

Those elegant delights of jig and vaulting.

Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.

The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise?

General, get up dress quick you are a prisoner!

The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light.

New arts are long in the world before poets describe them; for they borrow everything from their predecessors, and commonly derive very little from nature or from life.