I used to lie awake as a child and get more entertainment and terror out of blank walls and plain furniture than most children could find in a toy-store.

It is the same woman, I know, for she is always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight.

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

A normal feminine influence in recasting our religious assumptions will do more than any other one thing to improve the world.

The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.

While we flatter ourselves that things remain the same, they are changing under our very eyes from year to year, from day to day.

A house does not need a wife any more than it needs a husband.