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.

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.

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

There are no days in the whole round year more delicious than those which often come to us in the latter half of April... The sun trembles in his own soft rays... The grass in the meadow seems all to have grown green since yesterday.

After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence.

Character shows itself apart from genius as a special thing. The first point of measurement of any man is that of quality.

Life is as inexorable as the sea.