When Socialism comes, it may be in such a form that we won't like it.

Ornamental pattern work, to be raised above the contempt of reasonable men, must possess three qualities: beauty, imagination and order.

When Socialism comes, it may be in such a form that we won't like it.

...If our houses, or clothes, our household furniture and utensils are not works of art, they are either wretched makeshifts, or, what is worse, degrading shams of better things.

I half wish that I had not been born with a sense of romance and beauty in this accursed age.

Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization.

Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement; a sanded floor and whitewashed walls and the green trees, and flowery meads, and living waters outside; or a grimy palace amid the same with a regiment of housemaids always working to smear the dirt together so that it may be unnoticed; which, think you, is the most refined, the most fit for a gentleman of those two dwellings?