It is utterly hopeless to think about any great improvement in modern…

Decidedly the best application of art to industry is when a great many copies are made from an exceedingly good pattern.

Of course there is no prima facie reason why cheap things should be ugly, for a die or mould of a good design costs no more than a bad one; but still the fact remains that the objects in use in every-day life are not beautiful, and it is …

If we copy, the thing never looks right [and] the same occurs with regard to those buildings which do not profess to be copies; both they and the copies want spirit. They are dead bodies... We are at our wits.

The civil engineer is the real 19th century architect.

I have been brought up in the 13th century belief, and in that belief I intend to die.

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