Three things a wise man will not trust, The wind, the sunshine of an April day, And woman's plighted faith.

For society, of all places I have ever been, Norwich is the best.

My name is Death: the last best friend am I.

Faith in the hereafter is as necessary for the intellectual as the moral character; and to the man of letters, as well as to the Christian, the present forms but the slightest portion of his existence.

The grave is but the threshold of eternity. What a world were this, how unendurable its weight, If they whom death hath sundered, did not meet again!

The disappointed man turns his thoughts toward a state of existence where his wiser desires may be fixed with the certainty of faith; the successful man feels that the objects which he has ardently pursued fail to satisfy the cravings of an immortal spirit; the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness, that he may save his soul alive.

It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.