💬 Quotes

"Knowledge is that which comes nearest to being none other than the divinity of things."

"Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider."

"Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed."

"Men ought to know that in the theater of human life it is only for God and angels to be spectators."

"Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority."

"He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator."

"A house should be born of the land and sit on the land, being so related to the hill that the hill and the house could not exist without each other."

"Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union."

"The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines."

"Early in life I had to choose between honest hypocrisy and hypocritical honesty. I chose the former and am now sometimes at a loss to know which is which."

"Architecture is that great living spirit which, taking the best from nature's material, infinite and exhaustible, does keep buildings ever in harmony with the earth."

"Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you."

"The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time."

"It was the voyage of the Snark that I had set my heart upon. And when I set my heart upon a thing, I am apt to go through with it."

"Before I was out of my teens I had made up my mind that the only way to be happy was to take chances, to 'up anchor' and let drive."

"Man is so naturally indolent that if left to himself he would sink back into the primeval slime. It requires a tremendous wrench to get him out of his ruts."

"It is better to sail and sink than to rot at the dock."

"The beauty of the adventure is that it is the unknown, and because it is the unknown, it is untried and untrodden."

"Embedded in the corrosive and often polarizing details of the daily political debate is a broader, more enduring narrative about who we are as a people."

"Our law isn't just atext; it's a living instrument, an ever-expanding circle of empathy that has slowly brought within its boundaries those once left out."