The highest spiritual quality, the noblest property of mind a man can have, is this of loyalty ... a man with no loyalty in him, with no sense of love or reverence or devotion due to something outside and above his poor daily life, with its pains and pleasures, profits and losses, is as evil a case as man can be.

Hope knows not if fear speaks truth, nor fear whether hope be blind as she.

Blossom by blossom the spring begins.

There is no God found stronger than death; and death is a sleep.

There grows No herb of help to heal a coward heart.

Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which.

Change lays her hand not upon the truth.