To be surrounded by beautiful things has much influence upon the human creature; to make beautiful things has more.

Now why should that man have fainted? But he did,and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time!

It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate and provoke study, and when you follow the lame uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicide—plunge off at outrageous angles, destroy themselves in unheard of contradictions.

Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time.

Life is a verb, not a noun.

A family unity which is only bound together with a table-cloth is of questionable value.

Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be.