Lydia M. Child

"An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves."

Irving Babbitt

"Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn."

Laurence Sterne

"God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb."

Douglas William Jerrold

"The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon."

Ninon de L’Enclos

"If God had to give a woman wrinkles, He might at least have put them on the soles of her feet."

Steven Pinker

"Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature."

Stella Adler

"Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one."

Philip Johnson

"Architecture is the art of how to waste space."