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.

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

Quit the world, and the world forgets you.

Yes, I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.

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

When a man is going to try and borrow money, it is wise to look prosperous

Principle is ever my motto, no expediency.