It does not matter where you look or what examples you select, you will see that every form of enterprise, every step in material progress, is only u… - Andrew MacLaren

My own experience was too bitter to ever forget it. I had a mother who tried to rear a family, but met with disaster. There is nothing more terrible than when poverty strikes a house and those who are in it know there is a better life than the one they are living. I shall never forget when the demand for rates was knocking at our door. We could have managed to pay the high rental, but when the rates came on top of it, it plunged our household into absolute misery.

Art has come to be regarded as a form of amusement which can only be indulged in by men of great wealth....Thus art which is the soul of every democracy finds no place in the workaday existence

Art is not the plaything of the wealthy, but is the spirit of beauty which permeates the whole of Nature, and gives forth her message to all who can really appreciate it, make it their own, and attach their various artistic meanings to it.