You violets that first appear, By your pure purple mantles known, Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own — What are you when the rose is blown?

Virtue is the roughest way, but proves at night a bed of down.

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

Ambassadors are honest men sent abroad to lie for their countries.

An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country.

You violets that first appear, By your pure purple mantles known, Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own — What are you when the rose is blown?

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.