When the juices of trees have no means of escape, they clot and rot in them, making the trees hollow and good for nothing.

A liberal education forms a single body. Those, therefore, who from tender years receive instruction in the various forms of learning, recognize the same stamp on all the arts, and an intercourse between all studies, and so they more readily comprehend them all.

The third order, called Corinthian, is an imitation of the slenderness of a maiden; for the outlines and limbs of maidens, being more slender on account of their tender years, admit of prettier effects in the way of adornment.

An architect ought to be an educated man so as to leave a more lasting remembrance in his treatises.

In all matters but particularly in architecture, that which is signified is the subject of which we may be speaking and that which gives significance is a demonstration on scientific principles. One who professes himself an architect should be well versed in both directions.

There will be no propriety in the spectacle of an elegant interior approached by a low mean entrance.

Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.