 It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us. |
| How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it? |
| Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth. |
| Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time. |
| To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also. |
| All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent. |
| The essence of lying is in deception, not in words. |
| 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. |
| All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time. |
| The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one. |
| Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance. |
