“I’ll bridge these hills with graceful arches”

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.

A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn’t afterward.

I don’t know whether you are a saint or a fool said my lawyer. I replied Is there a difference?

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Now a work of art is a work of nature, but it is a work of human nature. It is a work of the mind: and it’s a work of the mind in circumstances for an occasion which, to which, for which, and which it may be supremely natural and simple and effective.

The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest.

The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.

The best friend on earth of man is the tree: When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources of the earth.

More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.

Imitate nothing except principle.

No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.

The measure of a man’s culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more.

Everybody round you pretendin that they are your partner, let you have a problem they won’t even help you out.

The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter.

Some people have no idea what they’re doing, and a lot of them are really good at it.

All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.

People run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water.

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

Human nature fascinates me.

Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.