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

No man is good enough to be another's master.

To happy folkAll heaviest words no more of meaning bearThan far-off bells saddening the Summer air.

It is for him that is lonely or in prison to dream of fellowship, but for him that is of a fellowship to do and not to dream.

I have said as much as that the aim of art was to destroy the curse of labour by making work the pleasurable satisfaction of our impulse towards energy, and giving to that energy hope of producing something worth its exercise.

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

There is no excuse for doing anything which is not strikingly beautiful.