Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.

Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture.

The same battle in the clouds will be known to the deaf only as lightning and to the blind only as thunder.

With you a part of me hath passed away; For in the peopled forest of my mind A tree made leafless by this wintry wind Shall never don again its green array. Chapel and fireside, country road and bay, Have something of their friendliness resigned; Another, if I would, I could not find, And I am grown much older in a day. But yet I treasure in my memory Your gift of charity, and young hearts ease, And the dear honour of your amity; For these once mine, my life is rich with these. And I scarce know which part may greater be,-- What I keep of you, or you rob from me.

The mass of mankind is divided into two classes, the Sancho Panza's who have a sense for reality, but no ideals, and the Don Quixote's with a sense for ideals, but mad.

With an artist no sane man quarrels, any more than with the colour of a child's eyes.

Heaven is to be at peace with things.