So with this Earthly Paradise it is, If ye will read aright, and pardon me, Who strive to build a shadowy isle of bliss Midmost the beating of the steely sea.

If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.

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

The wind is not helpless for any man's need, Nor falleth the rain but for thistle and weed.

There is no excuse for doing anything which is not strikingly beautiful.

So with this Earthly Paradise it is, If ye will read aright, and pardon me, Who strive to build a shadowy isle of bliss Midmost the beating of the steely sea.

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.