“The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments, than that which is built upon the rock; yet all gifts and privileges equal not one grace”
John Owen
“The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“My precept to all who build is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Gladstone was what you'd call an ornamental rector. Some were neither use nor ornament. He was at least ornamental.”
Donald Wintersgill
“And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.”
William Shakespeare
“Moral excellence is an ornament for personal beauty; righteous conduct, for high birth; success for learning; and proper spending for wealth.”
Chanakya
“True ornament is not a matter of prettifying externals. It is organic with the structure it adorns, whether a person, a building, or a park.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
