The smallest thing, well done, becomes artistic.

- William Matthews

Strive for excellence in your calling, but as a subsidiary to this: Do not fail to enrich your whole capital as man. To be a giant, and not a dwarf i…

- William Matthews

The petty cares, the minute anxieties, the infinite littles which go to make up the sum of human experience, like the invisible granules of powder, g…

- William Matthews

The power of music that poetry lacks is the ability to persuade without argument.

- William Matthews

One wellcultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth 100 shallow faculties. The first law of success in this day, when so many things are clam…

- William Matthews

It is not, of course, the subject that is or isn't dull, but the quality of attention that we do or do not pay to it. Dull subjects are those we have…

- William Matthews

The easiest way for me to lose interests is to know too much of what I want to say before I begin.

- William Matthews

A great deal of the joy of life consists in doing perfectly, or at least to the best of one's ability, everything which one attempts to do. There is…

- William Matthews

The difficulties, hardships and trials of life, the obstacles... are positive blessings. They knit the muscles more firmly, and teach self-reliance.

- William Matthews