"Mountains are to the rest of the body of the earth, what violent muscular action is to the body of man. The muscles and tendons of its anatomy are, in the mountain, brought out with force and convulsive energy, full of expression, passion, and strength."

"When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece."

"Give a little to love a child, and you get a great deal back"

"It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning."

"How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty: most treacherous, indeed, of all phantoms; for the feeblest ray of reason might surely show us, that not only its attainment, but its being, was impossible. There is no such thing in the universe. There can never be. The stars have it not; the earth has it not; the sea has it not; and we men have the mockery and semblance of it only for our heaviest punishment."

"Let every dawn of the morning be to you as the beginning of life. And let every setting of the sun be to you as its close. Then let everyone of these short lives leave its sure record of some kindly thing done for others; some good strength of knowledge gained for yourself."

"Fit yourself for the best society, and then, never enter it."

"The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain."

"Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride"

"Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure."

"No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art."

"Your labor only may be sold, your soul must not."

"Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect."

"Life without industry is guilt. Industry without Art is Brutality."

"It is not, truly speaking, the labor that is divided; but the men: divided into mere segments of men --broken into small fragments and crumbs of life, so that all the little piece of intelligence that is left in a man is not enough to make a pin, or a nail, but exhausts itself in making the point of a pin or the head of a nail."

"What is the cheapest to you now is likely to be the dearest to you in the end."

"The best thing in life aren't things."

"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."

"The secret of language is the secret of sympathy and its full charm is possible only to the gentle."

"Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself --my disgust at her barbarity --clumsiness --darkness --bitter mockery of herself --is the most desolating."

"They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserving of blame."

"Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up"

"Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you."

"You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself."

"In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong."

"Endurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty."

"Civilization is the making of civil persons."

"The beginning and almost the end of all good law is that everyone shall work for their bread and receive good bread for their work."

"To watch the corn grow, or the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over the plough or spade; to read, to think, to love, to pray, are the things that make men happy."

"The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power."

"It is eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and incapable of bearing fatigue; so that if we give it too many objects at a time to employ itself upon, or very grand ones for a long time together, it fails under the effort, becomes jaded, exactly as the limbs do by bodily fatigue, and incapable of answering any farther appeal till it has had rest."

"It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled."

"There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves."

"The essence of lying is in deception, not in words."

"Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are."

"No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple."

"We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears!"

"No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish"

"You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement."

"You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil"

"The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions."

"Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it."

"That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings."

"Give little love to a child, and you get a great deal back."

"It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists."

"No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish."

"The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him."

"Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions."

"Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort."

"You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil."