To do your own work well, whether it be for life or death.

"Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any living creature is "What do you like?" Tell me what you like, I'll tell you what you are."

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser...and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic.

No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing the labor of others.

Architecture ... the adaptation of form to resist force.

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.