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

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

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

The Spirit power begins in directing the Animal power to other than egoistic ends.

Wherever men are noble, they love bright colour; and wherever they can live healthily, bright colour is given them—in sky, sea, flowers, and living creatures.

The repose necessary to all beauty is repose, not of inanition, nor of luxury, nor of irresolution, but the repose of magnificent energy and being; in action, the calmness of trust and determination; in rest, the consciousness of duty accomplished and of victory won; and this repose and this felicity can take place as well in the midst of trial and tempest, as beside the waters of comfort.

What is in reality cowardice and faithlessness, we call charity, and consider it the part of benevolence sometimes to forgive men's evil practice for the sake of their accurate faith, and sometimes to forgive their confessed heresy for the sake of their admirable practice.