Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be. - Edwin Hubbell Chapin

Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So a man sometimes covers up the entire disk of eternity with a dollar, and quenches transcendent glories with a little shining dust.

[A] true man … never frets about his place in the world; but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star!

[U]nder the shadow of earthly disappointment, all unconsciously to ourselves, our Divine Redeemer is walking by our side.