Eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period.

One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

That which attempts to elevate the ugly to the level of beauty becomes neither; but an obscenity.

Filled with her love, may I be rather grown Mad with much heart, than idiot with none.

The whole life of Christ was a continual Passion; others die martyrs but Christ was born a martyr. He found a Golgotha even in Bethlehem, where he was born; for to his tenderness then the straws were almost as sharp as the thorns after, and the manger as uneasy at first as his cross at last. His birth and his death were but one continual act, and his Christmas day and his Good Friday are but the evening and morning of one and the same day. And as even his birth is his death, so every action and passage that manifests Christ to us is his birth, for Epiphany is manifestation.

Be more than man, or thou'rt less than an ant.