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

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

I am but a gatherer and disposer of other men's stuff, at my best value.

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?

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

Tell the truth so as to puzzle and confound your adversaries.

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.