What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?

Lavish thousands of dollars on your baby clothes, and after all the child is prettiest when every garment is laid aside. That becoming nakedness, at least, may adorn the chubby darling of the poorest home.

What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?

The most fertile soil does not necessarily produce the most abundant harvest. It is the use we make of our faculties which renders them valuable.

To be really cosmopolitan a man must be at home even in his own country.

Noble discontent is the path to heaven.

Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.