Race and temperament go for so much in influencing opinion! - Sydney, Lady Morgan, authoress of 'The wild Irish girl'

It is quite deplorable to see how many rational creatures (or, at least, who are thought so) mistake suffering for sanctity, and think a sad face and a gloomy habit of mind, propitious offerings to that deity, whose works are all light, and lustre, and harmony, and loveliness.

Your letters are always to me fresher than flowers, without their fading so soon.

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.