I will never tire of recommending the custom, practiced by the best architects, of preparing not only drawings and sketches, but also models of wood or any other material. These... enable us to examine... the work as a whole... and, before continuing any further, to estimate the likely trouble and expense.

As ability goes, so goes our fortune.

The Arts are learnt by reason and method; they are mastered by practice.

The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city.

A man can do all things if he will.

I certainly consider a great appreciation of painting to be the best indication of a most perfect mind.

I will never tire of recommending the custom, practiced by the best architects, of preparing not only drawings and sketches, but also models of wood or any other material. These... enable us to examine... the work as a whole... and, before continuing any further, to estimate the likely trouble and expense.