No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman.
There is a working class – strong and happy – among both rich and poor: there is an idle class – weak, wicked, and miserable – among both rich and poor.
I will not kill or hurt any living creature needlessly, nor destroy any beautiful thing, but will strive to save and comfort all gentle life, and guard and perfect all natural beauty upon the earth.
You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.
Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.
A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.
A man is one whose body has been trained to be the ready servant of his mind; whose passions are trained to be the servants of his will; who enjoys the beautiful, loves truth, hates wrong, loves to do good, and respects others as himself.
You can only possess beauty through understanding it.
The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don’t mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered.
Living without an aim, is like sailing without a compass.
The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them.
Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.
I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?
To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.
One can’t be angry when one looks at a penguin.
No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.
In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.