Drunkenness is not only the cause of crime, but it is crime; and if any encourage drunkenness for the sake of the profit derived from the sale of drink, they are guilty of a form of moral assassination as criminal as any that has ever been practiced by the braves of any country or of any age.

Your labor only may be sold, your soul must not.

Milton saw not, and Beethoven heard not, but the sense of beauty was upon them, and they fain must speak.

When you pay too much, you lose a little money - that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought is incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

The noble grotesque involves the true appreciation of beauty.

... 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 forever.