“Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.”
Work“It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.”
Architecture“Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.”
Work“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“You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil buy it, by compromise with evil.”
Peace“Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.”
Art“Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.”
Beauty“Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.”
Good“No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.”
Great“He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.”
Anger“To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.”
Education“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.”
Happiness“Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.”
Education“The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.”
Nature“The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.”
Education“We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.”
Architecture“A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.”
Great“Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.”
Music“It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.”
Art“Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.”
Best“Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.”
Work“I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.”
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