In mortals there is a care for trifles which proceeds from love and conscience, and is most holy; and a care for trifles which comes of idleness and frivolity, and is most base. And so, also, there is a gravity proceeding from thought, which is most noble; and a gravity proceeding from dulness and mere incapability of enjoyment, which is most base.

It is among children only, and as children only, that you will find medicine for your healing and true wisdom for your teaching.

Ship of the line is the most honourable thing that man, as a gregarious animal, has ever produced.

Order and system are nobler things than power.

Don't just look at buildings ... watch them.

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.

No peace was ever won from fate by subterfuge or argument; no peace is ever in store for any of us, but that which we shall win by victory over shame or sin--victory over the sin that oppresses, as well as over that which corrupts.