He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.

One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

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

The force of the guinea you have in your pocket depends wholly on the default of a guinea in your neighbour's pocket. If he did not want it, it would be of no use to you.

See that your children be taught, not only the labors of the earth, but the loveliness of it.

The man who accepts the laissez-faire doctrine would allow his garden to grow wild so that roses might fight it out with the weeds and the fittest might survive.

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.