Om rationalitet

"Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for example."

Om monument

"I would have .. our ordinary dwelling-houses built to last, and built to be lovely; ... with what degree of likeness to each other in style and manner.. ; but at all events, with such differences as might suit and express each man's character and occupation, and partly his history. This right over the house, I conceive, belongs to its first builder... raising thus the habitation into a kind of monument.."