"The life-boat may have a tasteful bend and beautiful decoration, but these are not the qualities for which I prize it…"

"HALO, n. Properly, a luminous ring encircling an astronomical body, but not infrequently confounded with "aureola," o…"

"Amber—a mineralized yellowish resin—was used in antiquity for decoration. In common with the bright shining silver-go…"

"We are left to worry about pictorial space almost by default. But, after all, the aim of art is to create space — spa…"

"To Leonardo a landscape, like a human being, was part of a vast machine, to be understood part by part and, if possib…"

"A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient na…"

"Surely there must be some way to find a husband or, for that matter, merely an escort, without sacrificing one's priv…"

"Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration."

"The glorification of the "'woman's role," then, seems to be in proportion to society's reluctance to treat women as c…"

"The rudest ruffian of the Middle Ages, when he looked at this Last Judgement, laughed for what was the Last Judgment …"