There is no distance on this earth as far away as yesterday.

"Give exceeding thanks for the mystery which remains a mystery still -- the veil that hides you from the infinite, which makes it possible for you to believe in what you cannot see."

"Beauty is ever to the lonely mind
A shadow fleeting; she is never plain.
She is a visitor who leaves behind
The gift of grief, the souvenir of pain."

Sorrow is a silence in the heart.

"A man's family sets him apart from all other living creatures. . . . Only man stands with his children from first to last, from birth to death, and to the grave."