William Morris

That Morris made himself a master of so many crafts and grappled even sosuccessfully as he did with the technical difficulties involved would besomewhat remarkable had he attempted none of the other undertakings in whichhe gained for himself a name to be remembered. His eagerness to express hisideals in a practical form led him on indefinitely. To the very last a new world toconquer roused his spirit and made him tingle to be off. For a man with the traceof the plodder in him such a career would have been an impossible one, butMorris went blithely from craft to craft by a series of leaps and bounds. Hestayed with each just long enough to understand its working principles and tomake himself efficient to teach others its peculiar virtues and demands, and hethen passed on....