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

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

“I never saw a moor, I never saw the sea; Yet know I how the heather looks, And what a wave must be. I never spoke with God, Nor visited in Heaven; Yet certain am I of the spot, As if a chart were given.”

“They say that 'home is where the heart is.' I think it is where the house is, and the adjacent buildings.”

“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.”

“To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.”

“Heart, we will forget him,You and I, tonight!You must forget the warmth he gave,I will forget the light.”