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..
We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts..
In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong..
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece..
The best thing in life aren't things..
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 ….
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….
One can't be angry when one looks at a penguin..
I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility..
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 ….
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it..
Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think..
The best work never was and never will be done for money..
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 ….
If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; if food, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for it: toil is the law..
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..