A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.

A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence.

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year. He only is right who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded by worry, fret and anxiety. Finish every day, and be done with it. You have done what you could.

Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.

The refining influence is the study of art, which is the science of beauty; and I find that every man values every scrap of knowledge in art, every observation of his own in it, every hint he has caught from another. For the laws of beauty are the beauty of beauty, and give the mind the same or a higher joy than the sight of it gives the senses. The study of art is of high value to the growth of the intellect.

The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting.