What instruction the baby brings to the mother!

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

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.

After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence. As Ruskin wrote in his earlier and better days, "No weight nor mass nor beauty of execution can outweigh one grain or fragment of thought.

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

There is certainly no defence or water -proof garment against adverse fortune which is, on the whole, so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.