Give children beauty, not the record of bloody slaughters and barbarous brawls, as they call history, or of the latitude and longitude of places nobody cares to visit, as they call geography.

Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern.

Where your life leads you, you must go

In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as a citizen.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

Medievalism, with its saints and martyrs, its love of self-torture, its wild passion for wounding itself, its gashing with knives, and its whipping with rods - Medievalism is real Christianity, and the medieval Christ is the real Christ.

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.