Miriam Beard

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

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

The results of philanthropy are always beyond calculation.

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

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.