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.
John Ruskin
Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.
There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.
Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.
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.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.
A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.
Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
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.
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.
In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.
No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.
Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.
Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.
The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.
When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.
Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.
Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.
There is no wealth but life.
Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.
The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.
It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.
The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.
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.
A book worth reading is worth buying.
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.
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.
It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
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.
Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.
No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.
To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
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.
The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.
Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.
Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.
Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.
Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.
