Eve of Saint Agnes.

David Garrick died 1779.

John Howard died 1790.

John Ruskin died 1900.

Nathaniel P. Willis born 1806.

How like a mounting devil in the heart
Rules the unreigned ambition! Let it once
But play the monarch, and its haughty brow
Glows with a beauty that bewilders thought
And unthrones peace forever. Putting on
The very pomp of Lucifer, it turns
The heart to ashes.

--Nathaniel P. Willis.

Temperance, in the nobler sense, does not mean a subdued and
imperfect energy; it does not mean a stopping short in any good
thing, as love or in faith; but it means the power which governs the
most intense energy, and prevents its acting in any way but as it
ought.

--John Ruskin.

And thy gentleness hath made me great.