one reason we haven't any national art is because we have too much magnificence. All our capacity for admiration is used up on the splendor of palace-like railway stations and hotels. Our national tympanum is so deafened by that blare of sumptuousness that we have no ears for the still, small voice of beauty.
Dorothy Canfield FisherLife takes hold of us with strong hands and makes us greater than we thought.
Dorothy Canfield FisherTaking somebody's sacrifices is like taking counterfeit money. You're only the poorer.
Dorothy Canfield Fisherit was always insolent for a common man to take a chair in the presence of a lady - the word LADY, we may be sure, capitalized in her mind, and denoting not sex but rank.
Dorothy Canfield FisherA mom isn't an individual to lean on, but a person to generate leaning needless.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher