Tenderness is the repose of Passion

Tenderness is the repose of Passion

Houses are built to live in and not to look on.

Houses are built to live in and not to look on.

The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments, read more

The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments, than that which is built upon the rock; yet all gifts and privileges equal not one grace

The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.

The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.

A house is a machine for living in.

A house is a machine for living in.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - A house is read more

Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children read more

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, read more

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.