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 open...

Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitati...

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be an...

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: the...

No architecture is so haughty as tha...

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 li...

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architec...

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and th...

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the...

Endurance is nobler than strength, and p...

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light depr...

The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within...