Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915 Our critical day is not the very day of our death, but the whole course of our life; I thank him, that prays for me when my bell tolls; but I thank him much more, that catechizes me, or preaches to me, or instructs me how to live.

As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.

Enjoyment always has a spoiling, otherwise it cannot be so.

I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.

The Phoenix riddle hath more wit By us, we two being one, are it. So to one neutral thing both sexes fit, We die and rise the same, and prove Mysterious by this love.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.