William Morris Quotes

The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in the daily details of life.

Let tomorrow cross its own rivers.

Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.

The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.

No man is good enough to be another's master.

The books I would like to print are the books I love to read and keep.

I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.

O thrush your song is passing sweet But never a song that you have sung Is half so sweet as thrushes sang When my dear love and I were young.

Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.

It is the relationship between the physical environment and the environed organism, between physiography and ontography (to coin a term), that constitutes the essential principles of geography today.

If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.

Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.

How can you care about the image of a landscape, when you show by your deeds that you don't care for the landscape itself?

The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.

It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.