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

And the deeds that ye do upon this earth, it is for fellowship's sake that ye do them.

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.

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.

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

There is no single policy to which one can point and say - this built the Morris business. I should think I must have made not less than one thousand decisions in each of the last ten years. The success of a business is the result of the proportion of right decisions by the executive in charge.

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