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.
The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
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.
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...
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...
To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
God alone can finish.
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...
Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.
Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.
Dream lofty dreams and as you dream so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall at last unveil.
And whether consciously or not, you must be in many a heart enthroned: queens you must always be: queens to your lovers; queens to your husbands and sons; queens of higher mystery to the world beyond,...
Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.
A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.
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...
Absolute and entire ugliness is rare.