Famous quotes containing the words henry david, henry, david and/or erskine:
“As we approached the log house,... the projecting ends of the logs lapping over each other irregularly several feet at the corners gave it a very rich and picturesque look, far removed from the meanness of weather-boards. It was a very spacious, low building, about eighty feet long, with many large apartments ... a style of architecture not described by Vitruvius, I suspect, though possibly hinted at in the biography of Orpheus.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
“In a thousand apparently humble ways men busy themselves to make some right take the place of some wrong,—if it is only to make a better paste blacking,—and they are themselves so much the better morally for it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The job of buildings is to improve human relations: architecture must ease them, not make them worse.”
—Ralph Erskine (b. 1914)