See that your children be taught, not only the labors of the earth, but the loveliness of it.

All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be effort, and the law of human judgment, mercy.

Value is the life-giving power of anything; cost, the quantity of labour required to produce it; its price, the quantity of labourwhich its possessor will take in exchange for it.

There are no laws by which we can write Iliads.

In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects of faith to show their powers of painting.

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

Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.