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

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

If we feel the least degradation in being amorous, or merry or hungry, or sleepy, we are so far bad animals & miserable men.

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.

Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization.

To happy folkAll heaviest words no more of meaning bearThan far-off bells saddening the Summer air.