“To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead
“Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.
“Death is not a journey into an unknown land; it is a voyage home. We are going, not to a strange country, but to our fathers house.
“To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour
“Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders
“The longest day must have its close -the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day
“To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity