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There Is Virtue In Country Houses, In Gardens And Orchards, In Fields, Streams And Groves, In Rustic Recreations And Plain Manners, That Neither Cities Nor Universities Enjoy.

One Does Not See His Thought Distinctly Till It Is Reflected In The Image Of Another's.

Every Noble Life Becomes A Revelation Of The Spirit Which The Love And Joy Of Mankind Cannot Let Perish From Remembrance.

If The Ancients Left Us Ideas, To Our Credit Be It Spoken That We Moderns Are Building Houses For Them -- Structures Which Neither Plato Nor Archimedes Had Dreamed Possible.

Our Notion Of The Perfect Society Embraces The Family As Its Center And Ornament, And This Paradise Is Not Secure Until Children Appear To Animate And Complete The Picture.