Her needlework both plain and ornamental was excellent, and she might have put a sewing machine to shame. – James Edward Austen-Leigh, about Jane Austen
Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor. – John Haggai
It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see. – Samuel Johnson
