 In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes. |
| Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation. |
| When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. |
| There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. |
| Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery. |
| Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade. |
| 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. |
| To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance. |
| Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons. |
| Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books. |
| No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases. |
| Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions. |
| 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. |
| One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live. |
| No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish. |
| Whether for life or death, do your own work well. |
| No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart. |
