My advice to all building-committee gentlemen … would be, Stick to simplicity. The grand effect of architecture must be from form and proportion. Favor designs, therefore, which, in their grand outlines, are at once satisfactory; then beware of enfeebling their strong features by childish ornaments and baby-house appendages. Simplicity of outline is especially necessary to any thing like dignity in an edifice of moderate size.
Le Corbusier Frederick Law Olmsted, Walks and Talks of an American Farmer in England, New Edition (Columbus: Jos. H. Riley, 1859 [1851]), pg. 310–311.
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