Well-building hat three conditions. Commodity, firmness, and delight.

You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light; You common people of the skies, What are you when the sun shall rise? This was printed with music as early as 1624, in East’s Sixth Set of Books, and is found in many manuscripts.

I am but a gatherer and disposer of other men’s stuff, at my best value.

You violets that first appear, By your pure purple mantles known, Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own – What are you when the rose is blown?

How happy is he born and taught; that serves not another’s will, whose armor is his honest thought and truth, his utmost skill.

Love lodged in a woman’s breast is but a guest.

Virtue is the roughest way, but proves at night a bed of down.

In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions: Commodity, Firmness and Delight.

By weaker accents, what's your praise When Philomel her voice doth raise?

Take heed of thinking. The farther you go from the church of Rome, the nearer you are to God.