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• I saw Eternity the other night, / Like a great ring of pure and endless light, / All calm, as it was brigh
  / And round beneath it, / Time in hours, days, years, / Driv'n by the spheres / Like a vast shadow mov'd...
• I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was brigh
  And round beneath it, Time, in hours, days, years, Driv'n by the spheres Like a vast shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurled....
• And yet, as angels in some brighter dreams Call to the soul when man doth sleep, So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted themes, And into glory peep.
  -- Henry Vaughan (1621-1695) -- They are all gone...
• Dear, beauteous death, the jewel of the just! Shining nowhere but in the dark
  What mysteries do lie beyond thy dust, Could man outlook that mark!...
• I see them walking in an air of glory Whose light doth trample on my days,-- My days, which are at best but dull and hoary, Mere glimmering and decays.
  -- Henry Vaughan (1621-1695) -- They are all gone...
• If you can't dress weird, why dress at all?
• She felt in italics and thought in capitals. -- Henry Jame
• A thousand things advance; nine hundred and ninety-nine retrea
  that is progress. -- Henry Frederic Amiel, Swiss philosophe...
• Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book ix, Line 782...