It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of Respectability. Robinson Crusoe was rather a moralist than a pietist, and his leaf-umbrella is as fine an example of the civilised mind striving to express itself under adverse circumstances as we have ever met with.

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.

Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert.

A little amateur painting in water colors shows the innocent and the quiet mind.

Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality.

Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.

The essence of love is kindness.