Use a good strong thick bold line so that we may get into the habit of leaving out those prettinesses which only cost money and spoil our design. - William Burges

The real mission of machinery is to reduce pounds to shillings and shillings to pence.

The civil engineer is the real 19th century architect.

There are two great uses of antiquarian studies. One of them is to enable us to conjure up as if by the magician's wand the dress, furniture, architecture, &c., of past ages, so that we can live, as it were, in many centuries almost at the same moment. This is a very great and a very pleasant species of knowledge, but it is not particularly useful in this work-a-day world; and it sometimes, like other knowledge, renders its possessor far from happy, more especially when he goes to the theatre, and sees all sorts of anachronisms and impossibilities a. The other use of antiquarian studies is to restore disused arts, and to get all the good we can out of them for our own improvement.