The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.
The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.
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.
Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.
I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.
The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.
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.
In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.
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.
No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.
Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.
Architecture is the work of nations.
A man is born an artist as a hippopotamus is born a hippopotamus; and you can no more make yourself one than you can make yourself a giraffe.
There is no wealth but life.
Never has interest in art been so high, and never has quality been so low.
Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life. It is the sign of life in a mortal body, that is to say, of a state of progress and change. Nothing that lives is, or can be rigidly perfect; part of it is decaying, part nascent.
No picture can be good which deceives by its imitation, for the very reason that nothing can be beautiful which is not true.
Hope- the recognition, by true foresight, of better things to be reached here after.