Your letters are always to me fresher than flowers, without their fading so soon. - Sydney, Lady Morgan, authoress of 'The wild Irish girl'

Vulgarity is setting store by "the things which are seen."

The influence of woman was, is, and ever will be exercised, directly or indirectly, in good or in evil! It is a part of the scheme of nature. Give her then the lights she is capable of receiving; educate her (whatever her station) for taking her part in society. Her ignorance has often made her interference fatal: her knowledge, never.

Architecture is the printing-press of all ages, and gives a history of the state of the society in which it was erected; from the cromlech of the Druids to those toyshops of royal bad taste.