Take them, O Death! and bear away Whatever thou canst call thine own! Thine image, stamped upon this clay, Doth give thee that, but that alone!

The Nile, forever new and old, Among the living and the dead, Its mighty, mystic stream has rolled.

A man must be of a very quiet and happy nature, who can long endure the country; and, moreover, very well contented with his own insignificant person.

When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.

Quotes about Life Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art; to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.

The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory.