Quotes about architecture

The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce buildings into which he himself may never enter.

Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot; that it be securely founded; that it be successfully executed.

Nothing contributes more to nourish elevation of sentiments in a people, than the large and free character of their habitations.