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.

The itch of disputation will prove the scab of the Church.

How happy is he born and taught; that serves not another's will, whose armor is his honest thought and truth, his utmost skill.

Love lodged in a woman's breast is but a guest.

You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light; You common people of the skies, What are you when the sun shall rise? This was printed with music as early as 1624, in East's Sixth Set of Books, and is found in many manuscripts.

Take heed of thinking. The farther you go from the church of Rome, the nearer you are to God.

Well building hat three conditions. Commodity, firmness, and delight.