“There is no wealth but life.”
“The last act crowns the play.”
“A book worth reading is worth buying.”
“The best thing in life aren't things.”
“Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.”
“Civilization is the making of civil persons.”
“Your labor only may be sold, your soul must not.”
“Whether for life or death, do your own work well.”
“When we build, let us think that we build for ever.”
“People cannot live by lending money to one another.”
“Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.”
“No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.”
“When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.”
“An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.”
“Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.”
“In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.”
“The best work never was and never will be done for money.”
“No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.”
“Give little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.”
“It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.”
“Fit yourself for the best society, and then, never enter it.”
“One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.”
“Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.”
“The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.”
“Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.”
“It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.”
“Life without industry is guilt. Industry without Art is Brutality.”
“When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package.”
“It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.”
“No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.”