The world globes itself in a drop of dew.

I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency. Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.Instead of the gong for dinner, let us hear a whistle from the Spartan fife.

Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact makes much impression on him, and another none.

The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect.

I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.

Let us answer a book of ink with a book of flesh and blood.

Fashion which affects to be honor, is often, in all men's experience, only a ballroom-code.