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

Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement.

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

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

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?

History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.

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.