No, I don't take soup. You can't build a meal on a lake.
No one chair should be isolated.
a woman of the world should always be the mistress of sorrow and not its servant. She may have a grief but never a grievance.
Good dressing is largely a question of detail and accessories.
A house should be a synthesis of comfort, practicality, and tradition.
What is the goal? A house that is like the life that goes with it, a house that gives us beauty as we understand it- and beauty of a nobler kind that we may grow to understand.