For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.

The final mystery is oneself.

Create yourself. Be yourself your poem.

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of herself. -Author Unknown As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

Great passions are for the great of soul, and great events can be seen only by those who are on a level with them

Children have a natural antipathy to books- handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous.