“I do not want art for a few, any more than education for a…” William Morris

Dreamer of dreams, born out of my due time,
Why should I strive to set the crooked straight?
The Earthly Paradise (1868), “An Apology”, ll. 22–23
- Poetry
If you want a golden rule that will fit everybody, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
“The Beauty of Life”, a lecture before the Birmingham Society of Arts and School of Design (19 February 1880), later published in Hopes and Fears for Art: Five Lectures Delivered in Birmingham, London, and Nottingham, 1878–1881 (1882)
- Advice
- Beauty
Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement.
“The Prospects of Architecture in Civilisation”, lecture at the London Institution (10 March 1880), in Hopes and Fears for Art (1882)

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