Cass Gilbert Quotations

The Capitol is the best work I have ever done, or shall ever do, and I am glad to have Given it to St. Paul.

I loved the excitement and the pleasures of life in New York, the opportunities for advancement, the pursuit of ambition, the theaters, the places of amusement, and such nights as the last I spent with you just as I was leaving for the West.

I am learning to live, and to see beauty in everything.

Beware of over-confidence; especially in matters of structure.

It is only the young and callow and ignorant that admire rashness. Think before you speak. Know your subject.

Humble birth did not retard his genius, nor high place corrupt his soul.

To become an Architect in the right sense of the word means that a man shall give his life to it and nothing else, and shall study the work he has to do with enthusiastic interest in every detail pertaining to it, and content himself with nothing less than complete success.

A skyscraper is a machine that makes the land pay.