“Nature is what we know / Yet have not art to say / So impotent our wisdom is / To her simplicity.”

“Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.”

“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.”

“They say that God is everywhere and yet we always think of him as somewhat of a recluse.”

“How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!”

“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.”