And the glory of character is in affronting the horrors of depravity to draw thence new nobilities of power: as Art lives and thrills in new use and combining of contrasts, and mining into the dark evermore for blacker pits of night.

Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdom which cannot help itself.

Fate is unpenetrated causes.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

I do not wonder at a snowflake, a shell, a summer landscape, or the glory of the stars; but at the necessity of beauty under which the universe lies.

Happy is the house that shelters a friend.

The day is always his, who works in it with serenity and great aims.