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Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.
The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men’s lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.
How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?
Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.
All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.