The true use of a thing is the test of its value.

All great art is praise.

Every noble life leaves the fibre of it interwoven forever in the work of the world.

Genius is only a superior power of seeing.

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

Every person, every event, every story has its lesson.

Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think.

Death is not a journey into an unknown land; it is a voyage home. We are going, not to a strange country, but to our fathers house.

No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.

Imaginary evils soon become real ones by indulging our reflections on them.

Wealth is not the abundance of money, but the fullness of life.

Cookery means…English thoroughness, French art, and Arabian hospitality; it means the knowledge of all fruits and herbs and balms and spices; it means carefulness, inventiveness, and watchfulness.

Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.

When God shuts a door, He opens a window.

The only way to deal with this life meaningfully is to find one’s passion.

Knowledge is the eye of the soul.

Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.

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.

Labour without joy is base. Labour without sorrow is base. Sorrow without labour is base. Joy without labour is base.

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

We are always the same age inside.

There is no wealth but life.

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

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

There is no beauty without order.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.

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

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

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

The first condition of education is being able to put one’s mind in a state where it is ready to receive.

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most.

Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.

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

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

A man who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for.

All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time.

What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do.

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

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

To teach us how to live, we must first teach ourselves how to work.

It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.

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 this man’s lawful prey.

Work first, and then rest.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.

The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

The best things in life aren’t things.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.