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

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" The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education. "

" When we build, let us think that we build for ever. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions. "

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

" Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs. "

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

" Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor. "

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

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

" Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade. "

" Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "