There is no greater pain than to remember, in our present grief, past happiness.
The greatest gift that God in His bounty made in creation, and the most conformable to His goodness, and that which He prizes the most, was the freedom of will, with which the creatures with intelligence, they all and they alone, were and are endowed.
Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.
Still desiring, we live without hope.
Into the eternal darkness, into fire and into ice.
A prayer may chance to rise From one whose heart lives in the grace of God. A prayer from any other is unheeded.