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?

The measure of any great civilization is its cities and a measure of a city's greatness is to be found in the quality of its public spaces, its parks and squares.

Genius is only a superior power of seeing.

There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals.

Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer.

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

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.

Living without an aim, is like sailing without a compass.

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong.

One can't be angry when one looks at a penguin.

People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser...and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic.

The best thing in life aren't things.

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.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated.

Kind hearts are the garden, kind thoughts are the roots, kind words are the blossoms, kind deeds are the fruit.

No individual rain drop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

A little group of wise hearts is better than a wilderness full of fools.