Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.

We all to some extent meet again and again the same people and certainly in some cases form a kind of family of two or three or more persons who come together life after life until all passionate relations are exhausted, the child of one life the husband, wife, brother, sister of the next. Sometimes, however, a single relationship will repeat itself, turning its revolving wheel again and again.

No art can conquer the people alone-the people are conquered by an ideal of life upheld by authority.

Everything that's lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.

Style, personality - deliberately adopted and therefore a mask - is the only escape from the hot-faced bargainers and money-changers.

We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us that they may see, it may be, their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even with a fiercer life because of our quiet.

Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.