And yet, as angels in some brighter dreams Call to the soul when man doth sleep. So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted dreams, And into glory peep.

There is in God - some say - A deep, but dazzling darkness; as men here Say it is late and dusky, because they See not all clear. O for that Night! where I in Him Might live invisible and dim!

I saw Eternity the other night Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm as it was bright.

Dear beauteous death, the jewel of the just.

Death, and darkness get you packing, Nothing now to man is lacking, All your triumphs now are ended, And what Adam marred, is mended.

The skin and shell of things Though fair are not Thy wish nor prayer but got My meer despair of wings.

They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

The sun doth shake Light from his locks, and, all the way Breathing perfumes, doth spice the day.

Affliction is a mother, Whose painful throes yield many sons, Each fairer than the other.

Man is the shuttle, to whose winding quest And passage through these looms God ordered motion, but ordained no rest.

But felt through all this fleshly dresse Bright shootes of everlastingnesse.

I liked things better when I didn't understand them.

No one wants to get hurt but without pain how can we win?

If poverty makes man groan, he yawns in opulence. When fortune exempts us from labor, nature overwhelms us with time.

To new beginnings. To the pursuit of...somethingness.

The Empire State Building is the closest thing to heaven in this city.

We're terrible at realising what goes on in other people's heads because we are trapped inside our own.

Marriage is a lot like the army, everyone complains, but you'd be surprise at the large number that re-enlist.

When you hear the voice of Rosa Ponselle, you hear a fountain of melody blessed by the Lord.

Value investors should completely exit a security by the time it reaches full value; owning overvalued securities is the realm of speculators.