Still, looking through the old volumes was soothing, because thinking of the past made the present seem a little less real.

Everything in the least connected with him has value for me; if someone even mentions his name it is like a little present to me-and I long to mention it myself

People's clothes ought to be buried with them.

Father says hot water can be as stimulating as an alcoholic drink and though I never come by one...I can well believe it.

I think it [religion] is an art, the greatest one; an extension of the communion all the other arts attempt.

Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.

Thinking of death--strange, beautiful, terrible and a long way off--made me feel happier than ever.