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" How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it? "

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" Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand. "

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

" Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons. "

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

" In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes. "

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

" Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance. "

" An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome. "

" No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder. "

" The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do. "

" Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books. "

" No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds. "

" To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one. "

" Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever. "

" The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced. "

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

" To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education. "

" Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. "

" Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness. "

" A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it. "

" All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy. "

" Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder. "

" He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas. "

" Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them. "

" The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion. "

" In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it. "

" The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work. "

" Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery. "

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