Yes, death, — the hourly possibility of it, — death is the sublimity of life. - William Mountford

The second childhood of a saint is the early infancy of a happy immortality, as we believe.

All noblest things are religious,— not temples and martyrdoms only, but the best books, pictures, poetry, statues, and music.

Only let us love God, and then nature will compass us about like a cloud of Divine witnesses; and all influences from the earth, and things on the earth, will be ministers of God to do us good. Only let there be God within us, and then every thing outside us will become a godlike help.