In the supposed state of nature, all men are equally bound by the laws of nature, or to speak more properly, the laws of the Creator.

Architecture has to be greater than just architecture. It has to address social values, as well as technical and aesthetic values.

Let me go to hell, that's all i ask.

I never object to a certain degree of disputatiousness in a young man from the age of seventeen to that of four or five and twenty, provided I find him always arguing on one side of the question.

As piety, religion and morality have a happy influence on the minds of men, in their public as well as private transactions, you will not think it unseasonable, although I have frequently done it, to bring to your remembrance the great importance of encouraging our University, town schools, and other seminaries of education, that our children and youth while they are engaged in the pursuit of useful science, may have their minds impressed with a strong sense of the duties they owe to their God.

The practice of architecture not only requires participation in the profession but it also requires civic engagement.

The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce. You can't weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.