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.

Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.

Love is enough: though the world be a-waning, And the woods have no voice but the voice of complaining.

What is an artist but a workman who is determined that, whatever else happens, his work shall be excellent?

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.

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