建筑之美在于它能够将人们聚集在一起。
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
身处鄙野不能看轻自己，而处庙宇高台则不能看重自己。
The truth is, the science of Nature has been already too long made only a work of the brain and the fancy: It is now high time that it should return to the plainness and soundness of observations on material and obvious things.
Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.