We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts.
In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects of faith to show their powers of painting.
To watch the corn grow, or the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over the plough or spade; to read, to think, to love, to pray are the things that make men happy.
There is nothing so great or so goodly in creation, but that it is a mean symbol of the gospel of Christ, and of the things He has prepared for them that love Him.
Your labor only may be sold, your soul must not.
Fit yourself for the best society, and then, never enter it.
Life without industry is guilt. Industry without Art is Brutality.
When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work.
Unless we perform divine service with every willing act of our life, we never perform it at all.
Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future.
The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.
Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.
It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.
Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.
Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I’ll tell you what you are.
The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.
The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.
Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.
Civilization is the making of civil persons.