Conflict, which rouses up the best and highest powers in some characters, in others not only jars the whole being, but paralyzes the faculties.

A good taste is often unconscious; a just taste is always conscious.

Have the courage to appear poor and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.

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

whatever is morally wrong, is equally wrong in man and in woman and no virtue is to be cultivated in one sex, that is not equally required by the other.

Conflict, which rouses up the best and highest powers in some characters, in others not only jars the whole being, but paralyzes the faculties.

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