Every mortal loss is an immortal gain.

He who has few things to desire cannot have many to fear.

The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever and ever.

I am under the direction of messengers from Heaven daily and nightly.

The human mind cannot go beyond the gift of God, the Holy Ghost. To suppose that art can go beyond the finest specimens of art that are now in the world is not knowing what art is; it is being blind to the gifts of the spirit.

England! awake! awake! awake! Jerusalem thy sister calls! Why wilt thou sleep the sleep of death And close her from thy ancient walls?

O Winter! bar thine adamantine doors: The north is thine; there hast thou build thy dark, Deep-founded habitation. Shake not thy roofs, Nor bend thy pillars with thine iron car.