So with this Earthly Paradise it is, If ye will read aright, and pardon me, Who strive to build a shadowy isle of bliss Midmost the beating of the steely sea.

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

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.

Art made by the people for the people, as a joy to the maker and the user.

I am going your way, so let us go hand in hand. You help me and I'll help you. We shall not be here very long ... so let us help one another while we may.

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

There is no excuse for doing anything which is not strikingly beautiful.

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

Nothing should be made by man's labour which is not worth making, or which must be made by labour degrading to the makers.

History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.

Life tells the most beautiful stories.

On what strange stuff Ambition feeds!

March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb.

Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.

Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms.

Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.

The hope in the hearts of millions of national socialists can be fulfilled only by an authoritarian government.

If the Tories get in, in five years no one will be able to afford to buy an egg.

Media play a powerful role in establishing and perpetuating social norms.

Just make sure your children hate authority and they'll do fine.