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.

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.

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

Forsooth, brethren, fellowship is heaven and lack of fellowship is hell; fellowship is life and lack of fellowship is death; and the deeds that ye do upon the earth, it is for fellowship's sake that ye do them.

Art made by the people for the people, as a joy to the maker and the user.

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

The heart desires, the hand refrains. The Godhead fires, the soul attains.