I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.
— John Ruskin
Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.
Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.
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.
He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.
There is no wealth but life.
Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.
