A home kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought.

To have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and sung with exultation - this to to have succeeded.

Be a gift and a benediction.

The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man.

Society gains nothing whilst a man, not himself renovated, attempts to renovate things around him; he has become tediously good insome particular but negligent or narrow in the rest; and hypocrisy and vanity are often the disgusting result.

A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude.

We love it because it is self dependent, self derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person.