The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.

Mastership hath many shifts whereby it striveth to keep itself alive in the world. And now hear a marvel: whereas thou sayest these two times that out of one man ye may get but one man's work, in days to come one man shall do the work of a hundred men - yea, of a thousand or more: and this is the shift of mastership that shall make many masters and many rich men.

Earth, left silent by the wind of night,Seems shrunken 'neath the gray unmeasured height.

Don't think too much of style.

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

Beauty, which is what is meant by art, using the word in its widest sense, is, I contend, no mere accident to human life, which people can take or leave as they choose, but a positive necessity of life.

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