There is no wealth but life.
Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
If a book is worth reading it is worth buying.
Every great person is always being helped by everybody for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.
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.
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.
Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.
The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
Absolute and entire ugliness is rare.
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
We are always in these days endeavoring to separate intellect and manual labor; we want one man to be always thinking, and another to be always working, and we call one a gentleman, and the other an o...
I know well that happiness is in little things.
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel.
Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.
Whether for life or death, do your own work well.
It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit w...
One of the major obstacles impeding any positive future change in our lives is that we are too busy with our current work or activity. Levi quit his tax-work, Peter stopped fishing at lake, Paul cease...
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 can only possess beauty through understanding it.
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.