It is for him that is lonely or in prison to dream of fellowship, but for him that is of a fellowship to do and not to dream.
To happy folkAll heaviest words no more of meaning bearThan far-off bells saddening the Summer air.
A world made to be lost, -A bitter life ’twixt pain and nothing tost.
If a chap can’t compose an epic poem while he’s weaving tapestry, he had better shut up, he’ll never do any good at all.
There is no single policy to which one can point and say – this built the Morris business. I should think I must have made not less than one thousand decisions in each of the last ten years. The success of a business is the result of the proportion of right decisions by the executive in charge.
Speak but one word to me.
What is an artist but a workman who is determined that, whatever else happens, his work shall be excellent?
No pattern should be without some sort of meaning.
And the deeds that ye do upon this earth, it is for fellowship’s sake that ye do them.
Love is enough: though the world be a-waning, And the woods have no voice but the voice of complaining.
Death have we hated, knowing not what it meant; Life we have loved, through green leaf and through sere, Though still the less we knew of its intent.
The greatest foe to art is luxury, art cannot live in its atmosphere.
Beauty, which is what is meant by art, using the word in its widest sense, is, I contend, no mere accident to human life, which people can take or leave as they choose, but a positive necessity of life.
All rooms ought to look as if they were lived in, and to have so to say, a friendly welcome ready for the incomer.
It is the childlike part of us that produces works of the imagination. When we were children time passed so slow with us that we seemed to have time for everything.
We are only the trustees for those who come after us.
By God! I will not tell you more to-day, Judge any way you will – what matters it?
Free men must live simple lives and have simple pleasures.
If i were asked to say what is at once the most important production of Art and the thing most to be longed for, I should answer, A beautiful House.
Give me love and work – these two only.