“Love is its own rescue; for we, at our supremest, are but its trembling emblems.”

“When Jesus tells us about his Father, we distrust him. When he shows us his Home, we turn away, but when he confides to us that he is 'acquainted with Grief', we listen, for that also is an Acquaintance of our own.”

“My life closed twice before its close; It yet remains to seeIf Immortality unveil A third event to me,So huge, so hopeless to conceive, As these that twice befell.Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell.”

“That love is all there is, Is all we know of love.”

“Look back on Time, with kindly eyes -He doubtless did his best -How softly sinks that trembling sunIn Human Nature's West -”

“For you know we do not mind our dressWhen we are going home”

“We never know how high we are till we are called to rise. Then if we are true to form our statures touch the skies.”