A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel.
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
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 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...
The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
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.
You can only possess beauty through understanding it.
It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.
All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.
Shadows are in reality when the sun is shining the most conspicuous thing in a landscape next to the highest lights.
God gives us always strength enough and sense enough for everything He wants us to do.
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.
To be content in utter darkness and ignorance is indeed unmanly, and therefore we think that to love light and find knowledge must always be right. Yet wherever pride has any share in the work, even k...
The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.
Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.
The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.
The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise as the greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure.
I believe the first test of a truly great man is his humility.
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...