“Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.”

“Winter solitude-
in a world of one colour
the sound of the wind.”

“There's a special quality to the loneliness of dusk, a melancholy more brooding even than the night's.”

“Hence, all you vain delights,
As short as are the nights
Wherein you spend your folly!
There's naught in this life sweet
But only melancholy;
O sweetest melancholy!”

“I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.”

“Longer than a winter's night for a man who is ill-wed.”

“God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.”

“And then the lute, the lattice, and the girl,
The white rose, and the melancholy song —
Oh, Night, thy reign is over lovely things!”

“Most houses grossly violate the basic principles of natural summer cooling and sound winter heating.”

“Glory follows afflictions, not as the day follows the night but as the spring follows the winter; for the winter prepares the earth for the spring, so do afflictions sanctified prepare the soul for glory.”