By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind.

What are works of art for? to educate, to be standards. To produce is of little use unless what we produce is known, is widely known, the wider known the better, for it is by being known that it works, it influences, it does its duty, it does good. We must try, then, to be known, aim at it, take means to it. And this without puffing in the process or pride in the success.

I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day. What hours, O what black hours we have spent This night!

Glory be to God for dappled things.

Even with one companion ecstasy is almost banished.

Let Him easter in us, be a dayspring to the dimness of us, be a crimson-cresseted east.

The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened.