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.

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.

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

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.

Do not be afraid of large patterns, if properly designed they are more restful to the eye than small ones: on the whole, a pattern where the structure is large and the details much broken up is the most useful...very small rooms, as well as very large ones, look better ornamented with large patterns.

Free men must live simple lives and have simple pleasures.

And the deeds that ye do upon this earth, it is for fellowship's sake that ye do them.