Growth is the only evidence of life. - John Henry Newman

And with the morn those angel faces smile
Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.

[T]here is much in the liberalistic theory which is good and true; for example, not to say more, the precepts of justice, truthfulness, sobriety, self-command, benevolence, which, as I have already noted are among its avowed principles, and the natural laws of society. It is not till we find that this array of principles is intended to supersede, to block out, religion, that we pronounce it to be evil. There never was a device of the Enemy, so cleverly framed, and with such promise of success.

In a higher world it is otherwise; but here below to live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.