“All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.”
Great“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.”
Age“All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.”
Great“No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.”
Art“Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.”
Education“Whether for life or death, do your own work well.”
Death“Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.”
Age“Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.”
Work“The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.”
Nature“All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.”
Art“Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.”
Art“Every great person is always being helped by everybody for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.”
Great“Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.”
Beauty“Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.”
Work“The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.”
Men“The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.”
Science“You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil buy it, by compromise with evil.”
Peace“The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.”
Poetry“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.”
Education“Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.”
Music“Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.”
Art“The child who desires education will be bettered by it the child who dislikes it disgraced.”
Education