Of all God's gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.

If you can draw the stone rightly, everything within reach of art is also within yours.

I cannot but think it an evil sign of a people when their houses are built to last for one generation only.

Variety is a positive requisite even in the character of our food.

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.

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.

No false knight or lying priest ever prospered, I believe, in any age, but certainly not in the dark ones. Men prospered then, only in following openly-declared purposes , and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.