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

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.

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?

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

yet if you had a desire for good or beautiful thingsand your tongue were not concocting some evil to sayshame would not hold down your eyesbut rather you would speak about what is just

The happiest people are the one who have mastered life's hardest lesson. They've learned how to let go,

If a car came through a window anywhere near me, I'd be freaking out for three days!

It isn't much of a book of quotations if I am not in it.

After weeks of watching the roof leak I fixed it tonight by moving a single board

Surfaces simultaneously reveal and conceal.

If we are to believe or accept that buildings are cultural markers, if architects work in a vacuum with their own preconceptions about society, then we won't be creating appropriate cultural markers.

Walk in the way of the Lord with simplicity and do not torment your spirit. You must hate your defects, but with a quiet hate, not troublesome and restless.

The hardest thing was to give meaning to what appeared to have none.

I mean, in general, the danger is from Oriental faiths and Islam.