44 quotes
English writer and art critic (1819–1900)
“There is no wealth but life.”
"Reading and writing are not education if they do not help people to be kind to all creatures"
on Education
"Modern traveling is not traveling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel."
on Travel
"All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time."
on Literature
"For, truly, the man who does not know when to die, does not know how to live."
on Death
"What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do."
on Philosophy
"All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it."
on Art
"Fine art is that in which the hand the head and the heart of man go together."
"To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education."
"When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece."
on Love
"Endurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty."
on Wisdom
"Dream lofty dreams and as you dream so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall at last unveil."
on Dreams
"The weakest among us has a gift however seemingly trivial which is peculiar to him and which worthily used will be a gift also to his race."
on Strength
"The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it."
on Success
"Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close."
on Life
"When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece."
"The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most."
"Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort."
"All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul."
"Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave."
