The heart desires, the hand refrains. The Godhead fires, the soul attains.

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

If i were asked to say what is at once the most important production of Art and the thing most to be longed for, I should answer, A beautiful House.

...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.

By God! I will not tell you more to-day, Judge any way you will - what matters it?

Nothing should be made by man's labour which is not worth making, or which must be made by labour degrading to the makers.

One man with an idea in his head is in danger of being considered a madman: two men with the same idea in common may be foolish, but can hardly be mad; ten men sharing an idea begin to act, a hundred draw attention as fanatics, a thousand and society begins to tremble, a hundred thousand and there is war abroad, and the cause has victories tangible and real; and why only a hundred thousand? Why not a hundred million and peace upon the earth? You and I who agree together, it is we who have to answer that question.