Ebook The Use of the Margin

May we not add that the highest and most universal fine art, gathering up all the others under itself and giving them place and meaning, is the art of living? The most glorious picture ever painted is in the color of life, on the background of time and nature, in the shape of a good deed. The most wonderful of songs, beyond all that ever came from brain of poet or lips of singer, is made up of melodious days in the sweet har mony of a beautiful lifetime.