One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.
In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong.
When we build, let us think that we build forever.
Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.
You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.
The best work never was and never will be done for money.
Every noble life leaves its fibre interwoven forever in the work of the world.
He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.
He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.
No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.
Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts – the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.
Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.
Do not think of your faults, still less of other’s faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.
Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.
Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
A book worth reading is worth buying.
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.