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

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" A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort. "

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

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

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

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

" 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? "

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

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

" Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make. "

" A book worth reading is worth buying. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

" You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion. "

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

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

" The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness. "

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" 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. "

" Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time. "