“The secret of architectural excellence is to translate the proportions of a dachshund into bricks, mortar and marble.”

“Architecture aims at Eternity.”

“In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry.”

“The secret of architectural excellence is to translate the proportions of a dachshund into bricks, mortar and marble.”

“A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth.”

“When the Great Fire of London destroyed most of the medieval city in 1666, Christopher Wren was invited to design a new one. Within days, he had drawn up an elegant grid of broad boulevards leading to majestic squares, but it came to nothing - the existing landowners wanted things as they had been.”