This is one of my favorite Charlotte Mason quotes: Serenity of a Madonna "It is not for nothing that the old painters, however diverse their ideas in other matters, all fixed upon one quality as proper to the pattern Mother. The Madonna, no matter out of whose canvas she looks at you, is always serene. This is a great truth, and we should do well to hang our walls with the Madonnas of the early Masters if the lesson, taught through the eye, would reach with calming influence to the heart.
