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" No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases. "

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" 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. "

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

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

" There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey. "

" I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting. "

" Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities. "

" What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses? "

" No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart. "

" 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. "

" We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it. "

" Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light. "

" The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition. "

" Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation. "

" 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. "

" I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it? "

" All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time. "

" When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package. "

" Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes. "

" He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin. "

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

" Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor. "

" To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also. "

" The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque. "

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