Take heed of thinking. The farther you go from the church of Rome, the nearer you are to God.
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.
Virtue is the roughest way, but proves at night a bed of down.
The itch of disputation will prove the scab of the Church.
An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country.
An Ambassadore is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country, a news writer is a man of no virtue who lies at home for himself.