Architecture

"So that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building."

"Grandeur * * * consists in form, and not in size: and to the eye of the philosopher, the curve drawn on a paper two inches long, is just as magnificent, just as symbolic of divine mysteries and melodies, as when embodied in the span of some cathedral roof."

"In the elder days of Art, Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part; For the gods see everywhere."

"Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts."

"The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner."

"It was stated, * * * that the value of architecture depended on two distinct characters:—the one, the impression it receives from human power; the other, the image it bears of the natural creation."

"I would have, then, our ordinary dwelling-houses built to last, and built to be lovely; as rich and full of pleasantness as may be within and without: * * * with such differences as might suit and express each man's character and occupation, and partly his history."

"Therefore when we build, let us think that we build (public edifices) forever. Let it not be for present delight, nor for present use alone, let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for, and let us think, as we lay stone on stone, that a time is to come when those stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say as they look upon the labor and wrought substance of them, "See! this our fathers did for us.""

"Architecture is the work of nations."

"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."

"Ornamentation is the principal part of architecture, considered as a subject of fine art."

"Since it [architecture] is music in space, as it were a frozen music…. If architecture in general is frozen music."

"Behold, ye builders, demigods who made England's Walhalla [Westminster Abbey]."