Quotes from Miriam Beard

The results of philanthropy are always beyond calculation.

Leisure for reverie, gay or somber, does much to enrich life.

It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks.

Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else.

One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness.