As to the garden, it seems to me its chief fruit is-blackbirds.

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.

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.

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.

It has become an article of the creed of modern morality that all labour is good in itself -- a convenient belief to those who live on the labour of others. But as to those on whom they live, I recommend them not to take it on trust, but to look into the matter a little deeper.

The greatest foe to art is luxury, art cannot live in its atmosphere.

If i were asked to say what is at once the most important production of Art and the thing most to be longed for, I should answer, A beautiful House.