William Mackergo Taylor Quote

It is better to have a plain, substantial building, with no extravagance about it, but without a debt, than to have the most splendid specimen of Gothic architecture that is overlaid by a mortgage.


P. 151. - Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)


It is better to have a plain, substantial building, with no extravagance about it, but without a debt, than to have the most splendid specimen of...

It is better to have a plain, substantial building, with no extravagance about it, but without a debt, than to have the most splendid specimen of...

It is better to have a plain, substantial building, with no extravagance about it, but without a debt, than to have the most splendid specimen of...

It is better to have a plain, substantial building, with no extravagance about it, but without a debt, than to have the most splendid specimen of...