In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions: Commodity, Firmness and Delight.

Virtue is the roughest way, but proves at night a bed of down.

Tell the truth so as to puzzle and confound your adversaries.

How happy is he born and taught; that serves not another's will, whose armor is his honest thought and truth, his utmost skill.

An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country.

An Ambassadore is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country, a news writer is a man of no virtue who lies at home for himself.

Ambassadors are honest men sent abroad to lie for their countries.

Well building hat three conditions. Commodity, firmness, and delight.

You violets that first appear, By your pure purple mantles known, Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own — What are you when the rose is blown?

By weaker accents, what's your praise When Philomel her voice doth raise?

Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.

Insecurity is the lack of trust in your abilities and worth. When you enter into a secured state of consciousness, everything that helped boost your confidence will return.

Because I was conceived and born and I grew up. I'm breathing and my heart is beating and as much as it hurts ― as much searing, monumental pain it causes me ― I have to exist.

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

New England is the home of all that is good and noble with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions.

Knowledge was not meant to be locked behind doors. It breathes best in the open air where all men can inhale its essence.

When I was a child, the Earth was said to be two billion years old. Now scientists say it's four and a half billion. So that makes me two and a half billion.

Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression.

When you're expecting bad news you have to be prepared for it a long time ahead so that when the telegram comes you can already pronounce the syllables in your mouth before opening it.

A coach is often responsible to an irresponsible public.