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.

Meditation is culture.

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts

Those authors who appear sometimes to forget they are writers, and remember they are men, will be our favorites.