Well building hat 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.

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.

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

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.

Nothing is discussed more and practiced less than prayer.

The end of all knowledge should be service to others.

Class is considerate of others. It knows that good manners is nothing more than a series of petty sacrifices.

If you give in to intimidation, you'll go on being intimidated

We would much rather blame nature for what we don't like in ourselves than credit it for what we do like.

To argue against any breach of liberty from the ill use that may be made of it, is to argue against liberty itself, since all is capable of being abused.

All my life I have gone out on a limb, but I have turned the limb into a bridge, and there is cool, clear water flowing under.

I can't tell people how to have style. No amount of money can buy you style. It's just instinctive.

I do about 90 percent of my own stunts, and the things I can't do for insurance reasons, like swinging out of a flying helicopter, I wouldn't want to do anyway.

Baseball is dull only to dull minds.