Shadows are in reality, when the sun is shining, the most conspicuous thing in a landscape, next to the highest lights.
I cannot but think it an evil sign of a people when their houses are built to last for one generation only.
Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth.
Order and system are nobler things than power.
All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.
To be taught to read—what is the use of that, if you know not whether what you read is false or true? To be taught to write or to speak—but what is the use of speaking, if you have nothing to say? To be taught to think—nay, what is the use of being able to think, if you have nothing to think of? But to be taught to see is to gain word and thought at once, and both true.
God is a kind Father. He sets us all in the places where he wishes us to be employed. He chooses work for every creature which will be delightful to them if they do it simply and humbly. He gives us always strength enough and sense enough for what he wants us to do.
Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.
The noble grotesque involves the true appreciation of beauty.
All men who have sense and feeling are being continually helped; they are taught by every person they meet, and enriched by everything that falls in their way. The greatest, is he who has been oftenest aided. Originality is the observing eye.
Being thus prepared for us in all ways, and made beautiful, and good for food, and for building, and for instruments of our hands, this race of plants, deserving boundless affection and admiration from us, becomes, in proportion to their obtaining it, a nearly perfect test of our being in right temper of mind and way of life; so that no one can be far wrong in either who loves trees enough, and everyone is assuredly wrong in both who does not love them, if his life has brought them in his way.
No girl who is well bred, 'kind, and modest, is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want of manners, or of heart.
You can only possess beauty through understanding it.
Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.
Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book.
Don't just look at buildings ... watch them.
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
Obey something, and you will have a chance to learn what is best to obey. But if you begin by obeying nothing, you will end by obeying the devil and all his invited friends.
You talk of the scythe of Time, and the tooth of Time: I tell you, Time is scytheless and toothless; it is we who gnaw like the worm - we who smite like the scythe. It is ourselves who abolish - ourselves who consume: we are the mildew, and the flame.
The entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy the right things — not merely industrious, but to love industry — not merely learned, but to love knowledge — not merely pure, but to love purity — not merely just, but to hunger and thirst after justice.
the art of becoming 'rich', in the common sense, is not absolutely nor finally the art of accumulating much money for ourselves, but also of contriving that our neighbour shall have less. In accurate terms, it is 'the art of establishing the maximum inequality in your own favour'.
What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant well-being, and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.
Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.
Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.
That man is always happy who is in the presence of something which he cannot know to the full, which he is always going on to know.
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