What is important is using one's talent, intellect and energy in order to gain an appreciation and affection for people and place.

Architects are by nature and pursuit, leaders and teachers.

If you can't give me your word of honour, will you give me your promise?

For true patriots to be silent, is dangerous.

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.

The first point of justice ... consists in piety; nothing certainly being so great a debt upon us as to render to the Creator and Preserver those acknowledgments which are due to Him for our being and the hourly protection He affords us.

I grow gnomic. It is the last phase.