A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.

Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

To cultivate a garden is. . . to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful processes.

Even when we fancy we have grown wiser, it is only, it may be, that new prejudices have displaced old ones.

Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

I once asked a distinguished artist what place he gave to labor in art. "Labor," he in effect said, "is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art." Turning then to another--"And you," I inquired, "what do you consider as the great force in art?" "Love," he replied. In their two answers I found but one truth.

Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.