If proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the sanity of decoration.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

In a sky of iron the points of the Dipper hung like icicles and Orion flashed his cold fires.

... even in houses commonly held to be 'booky' one finds, nine times out of ten, not a library but a book-dump.

She wanted, passionately and persistently, two things which she believed should subsist together in any well-ordered life: amusement and respectability.

Happiness is a work of art. Handle with care.

The visible world is a daily miracle for those who have eyes and ears; and I still warm hands thankfully at the old fire, though every year it is fed with the dry wood of more old memories.