Death is the chillness that precedes the dawn; We shudder for a moment, then awake In the broad sunshine of the other life.

"Do not fear! Heaven is as near," He said, "by water as by land!"

The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.

Good-night! good-night! as we so oft have said Beneath this roof at midnight, in the days That are no more, and shall no more return. Thou hast but taken up thy lamp and gone to bed; I stay a little longer, as one stays To cover up the embers that still burn.

Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.

And when the echoes had ceased, like a sense of pain was the silence.

Love gives itself; it is not bought.