Occupation: Art Critic Birth: February 8, 1819 Death: January 20, 1900
People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser...and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic..
It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances..
Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents ….
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 ….
It's unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money - that's all. When you pay too little, ….
Kind hearts are the garden, kind thoughts are the roots, kind words are the blossoms, kind deeds are the fruit..
Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort..
No individual rain drop ever considers itself responsible for the flood..
Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty..
It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated..
What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do.
The true end of education is not only to make the young learned, but to make them love learning; not only to make them industrious, but to make them ….
In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong..
We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts..
Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think..
One can't be angry when one looks at a penguin..
The best thing in life aren't things..
It is strange that of all the pieces of the Bible which my mother taught me, that which cost me the most to learn, and which was to my childish mind ….
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kind….
When we build ... let it not be for present delights nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for, and let us ….
I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility..