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.

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

Art made by the people for the people, as a joy to the maker and the user.

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.

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

That talk of inspiration is sheer nonsense; there is no such thing. It is a mere matter of craftsmanship.

I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.