If you have ever watched an artist constructing with bits of cold stone a beautiful living picture you know that he works faithful...ly and carefully on the pattern from the wrong side and while he is working every inequality, every tint a little too dull is apparent to him as his picture grows, but he works on and on. And even when he finishes at last and looks down at the completed pattern he is not discouraged to see here a little crevice and there a little roughness, an open seam here, a tiny patch there where the bit of marble was too small. Now he pours his cement over it and smoothes [sic] it into every seam, and with faith puts his work to dry. Next day the pattern is turned and the perfect whole is given to view, needing only the polishing of a loving hand to make it ready to slip in place. So we should work faithfully on our pattern, cement it together with ourselves, and polish it with human kindness; and lo! the work slips into place seemingly a perfect whole.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Underneath the inharmonious and trivial particulars, is a musical perfection, the Ideal journeying always with us, the heaven with...out rent or seam.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, She can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby,... She can use her intuition instead of her brain, But she can't fold a paper in a crowded train.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I remember a very important lesson that my father gave me when I was twelve or thirteen. He said, "You know, today I welded a perf...ect seam and I signed my name to it." And I said, "But, Daddy, no one's going to see it!" And he said, "Yeah, but I know it's there." So when I was working in kitchens, I did good work.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »