The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.

And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.Literary and Other Notes I, Woman’s World （November 1887）

We are all shaped by the invisible hand of evolution.

建筑必须在实用与诗意之间斡旋。

仁慈的人容易认为，一定有一种巧妙的方法，不必造成太大的伤亡就能解除敌人的武装或者打垮敌人，并且认为这是军事艺术真正发展的方向。这种看法不管多么美妙，都是必须消除的错误思想，因为在像战争这么危险的事情中，由仁慈而产生的错误思想正是最为有害的。