Speak but one word to me.

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

If a chap can't compose an epic poem while he's weaving tapestry, he had better shut up, he'll never do any good at all.

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.

Give me love and work - these two only.

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.

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