This is the true nature of home - it is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from all injury, but from all terror, doubt, and division.

A gentleman's first characteristic is that fineness of structure in the body which renders it capable of the most delicate sensation; and of structure in the mind which renders it capable of the most delicate sympathies; one may say simply "fineness of nature.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future.

All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another, and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it.

Borrowers are nearly always ill-spenders, and it is with lent money that all evil is mainly done and all unjust war protracted.

Come, ye cold winds, at January's call, On whistling wings, and with white flakes bestrew The earth.