"Most of us understand, at least in theory, that marriage is not an achievement but a choice. We have learned to value…"

"For reasons that have never been clear to me, the call centre for my insurer – a policy bought through a broker in Du…"

"I have more confidence in the charity which begins in the home and diverges into a large humanity, than in the worldw…"

"As the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the roving heart gathers no affections."

"A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense."

"The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us; to develop, to…"

"Piety in art—poetry in art—Puseyism in art—let us be careful how we confound them."

"He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and not fo…"

"Reputation is but a synonyme of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the v…"

"Reputation being essentially contemporaneous, is always at the mercy of the Envious and the Ignorant. But Fame, whose…"