It is, however, not to the museum, or the lecture-room, or the drawing- school, but to the library, that we must go for the completion of our humanity. It is books that bear from age to age the intellectual wealth of the world.

Words, however, are things.

Art is Nature made by Man, To Man the interpreter of God.

They only fall, that strive to move, Or lose, that care to keep.

No life can be pure in its purpose, and strong in its strife, and all life not be purer and stronger thereby.

No one will learn anything at all, unless one first will learn humility.

Unseen hands delay The coming of what oft seems close in ken, And, contrary, the moment, when we say "'Twill never come!" comes on us even then.