It is the common error of builders and parents to follow some plan they think beautiful (and perhaps is so) without considering that nothing is beautiful that is misplaced.
Source: Letter, 28 Jan. 1753, to her daughter Lady Bute (published in Selected Letters, ed. by Robert Halsband, 1970).
-- Mary Wortley Montagu, (May 26 1689-1762), English author; She wrote witty, descriptive letters of Middle Eastern life.