A strangely reflective even melancholy day. Is that because unlike our cousins in the northern hemisphere Easter is not associated with the energy and vitality of spring but with the more subdued spirit of autumn?

A peace is of the nature of a conquest for then both parties nobly are subdued and neither party loser.

Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.

There are moments when a man's imagination so easily subdued to what it lives in suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune but great minds rise above them.

Dramatic experience is not logical it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak in criticism of form.

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.