Who said “That irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.”?

“No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it well, ever loses his self-respect.”

“History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.”

“A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.”

“Let a human being throw the energies of his soul into the making of something, and the instinct of workmanship will take care of his honesty.”

“It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him.”

“Where there is great love there are always miracles.”

“Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.”

“No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.”

“That is happiness: to be dissolved into something complete and great.”

“The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.”

“Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.”