“Even through the shut window pane, the world looked cold.”

“Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.”

“Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.”

“Now you get to watch her leave out the window, Guess that's why they call it 'window pane.”

“A face at the window,
A tap on the pane;
Who is it that wants me
To-night in the rain?”

“The Bible is a window in this prison-world, through which we may look into eternity.”

“Are we not wasps who spend all day in a fruitless attempt to traverse a window-pane — while the other half of the window is wide open?”

“He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window.”

“They never pulled the curtains till it was too dark to see, nor shut the windows till it was too cold. Why shut out the day before it was over? The flowers were still bright; the birds chirped. You could see more in the evening often when nothing interrupted, when there was no fish to order, no telephone to answer.”

“All out of doors looked darkly in at him
Through the thin frost, almost in separate stars,
That gathers on the pane in empty rooms.”