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Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.

I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.

I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

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.

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

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.

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.

Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.