“A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.”
Great“In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.”
Great“A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.”
Great“In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.”
Great“The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.”
Science“No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.”
Architecture“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“I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.”
Great“Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.”
Great“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.”
Nature“There is no wealth but life.”
Life“The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.”
Education“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.”
Great“Every great person is always being helped by everybody for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.”
Great“Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.”
Work“All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.”
Great“No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.”
Society“You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.”
Religion“The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.”
Men“It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.”
Art“Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.”
Education“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.”
Nature