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

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

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

" Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning. "

" Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are. "

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

" There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Whether for life or death, do your own work well. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" A book worth reading is worth buying. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Civilization is the making of civil persons. "

" Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it. "

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

" Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth. "

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

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

" 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. "

" The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him. "