When it passes towards the east, the sun begins to have less effect upon it, and a thin line on the edge of its bright side emits its splendour towards the earth.

Architecture depends on Order, Arrangement, Eurythmy, Symmetry , Propriety , and Economy.

A harmonious design requires that nothing be added or taken away.

Nothing suffers annihilation, but at dissolution there is a change, and things fall back to the essential element in which they were before.

In Sparta, paintings have been taken out of certain walls by cutting through the bricks, then have been placed in wooden frames, and so brought to the Comitium to adorn the aedileship of [C. Visellius] Varro and [C. Licinius] Murena.

Apollo at Delphi, through the oracular utterance of his priestess, pronounced Socrates the wisest of men. Of him it is related that he said with sagacity and great learning that the human breast should have been furnished with open windows, so that men might not keep their feelings concealed, but have them open to the view. Oh that nature, following his idea, had constructed them thus unfolded and obvious to the view.

If our designs for private houses are to be correct, we must at the outset take note of the countries and climates in which they are built.