The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

The photograph is a coarse fraud, and seems to delight only in taking the whole beauty out of the picture.

All taxation is an evil, but heavy taxes, indiscriminately levied on every everything are one of the greatest curses that can afflict a people

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

Every one must bear his own universe, and most persons are moderately interested in learning how their neighbors have managed to carry theirs.

The gothic is singular in this; one seems easily at home in the renaissance; one is not too strange in the Byzantine; as for the Roman, it is ourselves; and we could walk blindfolded through every chink and cranny of the Greek mind; all these styles seem modern when we come close to them; but the gothic gets away.

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.