The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know the truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared "that the sense of being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow".

The poet, the painter, the sculptor, the musician, the architect, seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point, and each in his several work to satisfy the love of beauty which stimulates him to produce.

When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.