It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.
He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.
To speak and act truth with constancy and precision is nearly as difficult, and perhaps as meretorious, as to speak it under intimidation or penalty
For, truly, the man who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.
Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.
If only the Geologists would let me alone, I could do very well, but those dreadful Hammers! I hear the clink of them at the end of every cadence of the Bible verses
All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time.
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless.
You can only possess beauty through understanding it.
It does not much matter that an individual loses two or three hundred pounds in buying a bad picture, but it is to be regretted that a nation should lose two or three hundred thousand in raising a ridiculous building.
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel.
Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.
Reading and writing are not education if they do not help people to be kind to all creatures
Modern traveling is not traveling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.
Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any living creature is “What do you like?” Tell me what you like, I’ll tell you what you are.
Cookery means…English thoroughness, French art, and Arabian hospitality; it means the knowledge of all fruits and herbs and balms and spices; it means carefulness, inventiveness, and watchfulness.
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and what it saw in a plain way. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion–all in one.
Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.
What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.
All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it.
No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
Fine art is that in which the hand the head and the heart of man go together.
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless peacocks and lilies for instance.
The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it.
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless peacocks and lilies for instance.
Sunshine is delicious rain is refreshing wind braces us snow is exhilarating there is no such thing as bad weather only different kinds of good weather.
There is hardly anything in the world that some man can’t make a little worse and sell a little cheaper and the people who consider price only are this man’s lawful prey.
Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of man in strong health as color to his cheek and wherever there is habitual gloom there must be either bad air unwholesome food improperly severe labor or erring habits of life.
God gives us always strength enough and sense enough for everything He wants us to do.
To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
Sunshine is delicious rain is refreshing wind braces us up snow is exhilarating there is really no such thing as bad weather only different kinds of good weather.
When I have been unhappy I have heard an opera … and it seemed the shrieking of winds when I am happy a sparrow’s chirp is delicious to me. But it is not the chirp that makes me happy but I that make it sweet.
When men are rightly occupied their amusement grows out of their work as the color-petals out of a fruitful flower.
I believe the first test of a truly great man is his humility.
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
No one can do me any good by loving me I have more love than I need or could do any good with but people do me good by making me love them – which isn’t easy.
The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise as the greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure.
Sunshine is delicious rain is refreshing wind braces us up snow is exhilarating there is really no such thing as bad weather only different kinds of good weather.
Endurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty.
The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.
Dream lofty dreams and as you dream so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall at last unveil.
Sunshine is delicious rain is refreshing wind braces us up snow is exhilarating there is really no such thing as bad weather only different kinds of good weather.
When men are rightfully occupied then their amusement grows out of their work as the color petals out of a fruitful garden.
The weakest among us has a gift however seemingly trivial which is peculiar to him and which worthily used will be a gift also to his race.
When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package.
When I have been unhappy I have heard an opera … and it seemed the shrieking of winds when I am happy a sparrow’s chirp is delicious to me. But it is not the chirp that makes me happy but I that make it sweet.
Shadows are in reality when the sun is shining the most conspicuous thing in a landscape next to the highest lights.
Sometimes gentle sometimes capricious sometimes awful never the same for two moments together almost human in its passions almost spiritual in its tenderness almost Divine in its infinity.
God gives us always strength enough and sense enough for everything He wants us to do.
Dream lofty dreams and as you dream so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall at last unveil.
The highest reward for man’s toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.
When men are rightly occupied their amusement grows out of their work as the color-petals out of a fruitful flower.
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.
Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.
All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
It is written on the arched sky it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.
The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.
The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.
Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.
Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.
No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.
Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.
Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.
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.
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 architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.
You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.
To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.
I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.
Every great person is always being helped by everybody for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.
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.
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.
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.
Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
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.
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world… to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.