Architecture concerns itself only with those characters of an edifice which are above and beyond its common use.

Architecture concerns itself only with those characters of an edifice which are above and beyond its common use.

If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.

Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.

Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

Failure is less attributable to either insufficiency of means or impatience of labours than to a confused understanding of the thing actually to be done.