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.

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

People are defeated by easy, victorious and cheap successes more than by adversity.

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

But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.

Life is too short to be little. You must enlarge your imagination and then act on it.