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" One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live. "

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" All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent. "

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

" Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime. "

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

" 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. "

" A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money. "

" Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel. "

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

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

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

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

" The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one. "

" 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? "

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

" The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most. "

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

" Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition. "

" 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. "

" Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them. "

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

" The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it. "

" There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. "

" An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Nothing can be beautiful which is not true. "

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

" 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. "