Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.

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.

Whenever you see want or misery or degradation in this world about you, then be sure either industry has been wanting, or industry has been in error.

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.

In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong.

Order and system are nobler things than power.

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.