You may hang your walls with tapestry insread of whitewash or paper; or you may cover them with mosaic; or have them frescoed by a great painter: all this is not luxury, if it be done for beauty's sake, and not for show: it does not break our golden rule: Have nothing in your houses which you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.

So I say, if you cannot learn to love real art; at least learn to hate sham art and reject it. It is not because the wretched thing is so ugly and silly and useless that I ask you to cast it from you; it is much more because these are but the outward symbols of the poison that lies within them; look through them and see all that has gone to their fashioning, and you will see how vain labour, and sorrow, and disgrace have been their companions from the first-and all this for trifles that no man really needs!

The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.

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

Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.

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

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.