If we have been pleased with life we should not be displeased with death since it comes from the hand of the same master.

If we have been pleased with life we should not be displeased with death since it comes from the hand of the same master.

The promises of this world are for the most part vain phantoms and to confide in one's self and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.

The promises of this world are for the most part vain phantoms and to confide in one's self and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.

If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.