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.
There is hardly anything in the world that some man can't make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.
We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears
Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts--the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we can not put our heart.
The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.
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.
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