The official designs of the Government, especially its designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage, may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors of national taste.

I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.

Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labour of its unfamiliar thought.

This country will not always be an uncomfortable place for a country gentleman to live in, and it is most important that we should keep in this country a certa…

Ikenobo Sen'o, a master of flower arranging, once said (the remark is to be found in his Sayings): 'With a spray of flowers, a bit of water, one evokes the vas…

Poetry fettered fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed, or flourish, in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish!

South Africa, renowned both far and wide For politics and little else beside.