“No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.”
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The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.
You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil buy it, by compromise with evil.
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
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.