“Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time: effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.”

“All fear is but the notion that God's love ends.”

“Where the deepest word ends, there music begins with its supersensuous and all-confounding intimations.”

“All life is bound to a simple truth... that time goes on, that in each person's life begins a tale, a tale that will either end in memory or in legend.”

“If we work upon marble, it will perish; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal minds and instill into them just principles, we are then engraving that upon tablets which no time will efface, but will brighten and brighten to all eternity. ~”

“Mostly I couldn't bear... the paltry notion that memory was all that eternal life really meant, and I spent too much time wondering where people got the fortitude or delusion to keep on moving past the static dead.”