How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence.

Nine-tenths of all existing books are nonsense.

I was told that the privileged and the people formed two nations.

What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens.

If the history of England be ever written by one who has the knowledge and the courage,-and both qualities are equally requisite for the undertaking, - the world will be more astonished than when reading the Roman annals by Niebuhr.

What is wanted in architecture, as in so many things, is a man. ... One suggestion might be made-no profession in England has done its duty until it has furnished a victim. ... Even our boasted navy never achieved a great victory until we shot an admiral. Suppose an architect were hanged? Terror has its inspiration, as well as competition.

A dark horse, which had never been thought of, rushed past the grandstand in sweeping triumph.