As the eye becomes blinded by fashion to positive deformity, so, through social conventionalism, the conscience becomes blinded to positive immorality.

Now, it is a good sanitary principle, that what is curative is preventive.

As the eye becomes blinded by fashion to positive deformity, so, through social conventionalism, the conscience becomes blinded to positive immorality.

In morals, what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion, what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Occupation was one of the pleasures of paradise, and we cannot be happy without it.

In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose,--a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of the thought.

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.