I mean ... to let you know how deeply I am impressed with a sense of the importance of Amendments; that the good people may clearly see the distinction - for there is a distinction - between the federal powers vested in Congress and the sovereign authority belonging to the several States, which is the Palladium [the protection] of the private and personal rights of the citizens.

I grow gnomic. It is the last phase.

For the LORD will not cast away his people, for his great name's sake, because it has pleased the LORD to make you a people for himself.

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

The initial sketch is always an emotion, not a concept.

There is nothing so fretting and vexatious, nothing so justly terrible to tyrants, and their tools and abettors, as a free press.

The LORD sees not as man sees; man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart.