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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it. "

" To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance. "

" A book worth reading is worth buying. "

" 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. "

" It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them. "

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

" It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately. "

" 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. "

" Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art. "

" There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility. "

" 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. "

" It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends. "

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