"We shall suddenly be taken from all our pain and from all our woe, and of His Goodness we shall come up above, where we shall have our Lord Jesus for our meed and be fulfilled with joy and bliss in Heaven."

"Our Lord is the Ground of our Prayer. Herein were seen two properties: the one is rightful prayer, the other is steadfast trust; which He willeth should both be alike large; and thus our prayer pleaseth Him and He of His Goodness fulfilleth it."

"Our Lord God willeth we have great regard to all the deeds that He hath done: in the great nobleness of the making of all things; and the excellency of man's making, which is above all his works; and the precious Amends that He hath made for man's sin, turning all our blame into endless worship. In which Shewing also our Lord saith: Behold and see! For by the same Might, Wisdom, and Goodness that I have done all this, by the same Might, Wisdom, and Goodness I shall make well all that is not well; and thou shalt see it. And in this He willeth that we keep us in the Faith and truth of Holy Church, not desiring to see into His secret things now, save as it belongeth to us in this life."

"Our Lord Jesus sheweth in love His blissful heart even cloven in two, rejoicing."

"We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God."

"Our Lord God, Allmighty Wisdom, All-Love, right as verily as He hath made everything that is, all-so verily He doeth and worketh all-thing that is done."

"This is a Revelation of Love that Jesus Christ, our endless bliss, made in Sixteen Shewings, or Revelations particular. Of the which the First is of His precious crowning with thorns; and therewith was comprehended and specified the Trinity, with the Incarnation, and unity betwixt God and man's soul; with many fair shewings of endless wisdom and teachings of love: in which all the Shewings that follow be grounded and oned."

"To waft a feather or to drown a fly."

"Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness."

"They only babble who practise not reflection."

"The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done."

"By all means use some time to be alone."

"For Rules, like Crutches, are a needful Aid to the Lame, tho' an impediment to the Strong."

"There is something in Poetry beyond Prose-reason; there are Mysteries in it not to be explained, but admired; which render mere Prose-men Infidels to their Divinity."

"Born Originals - how comes it to pass that we die Copies?"

"The course of Nature is the art of God."

"An undevout astronomer is mad."

"'T is elder Scripture, writ by God's own hand,— Scripture authentic! uncorrupt by man."

"Final Ruin fiercely drives Her plowshare o'er creation."

"To frown at pleasure, and to smile in pain."

"A man of pleasure is a man of pains."

"The house of laughter makes a house of woe."

"Prayer ardent opens heaven."

"Truth never was indebted to a lie."

"What ardently we wish we soon believe."

"The man that blushes is not quite a brute."

"And all may do what has by man been done."

"Much learning shows how little mortals know; Much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy."

"Ambition! powerful source of good and ill!"

"Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps; And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Each man makes his own stature, builds himself. Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids; Her monuments shall last when Egypt’s fall."

"Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise."

"Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow."

"The man of wisdom is the man of years."

"That life is long which answers life's great end."

"While man is growing, life is in decrease; And cradles rock us nearer to the tomb. Our birth is nothing but our death begun."

"Like our shadows, Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines."

"We see time’s furrows on another’s brow, And death intrench’d, preparing his assault; How few themselves in that just mirror see!"

"Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew, She sparkled, was exhal'd and went to heaven."

"A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs."

"Less base the fear of death than fear of life."

"By night an atheist half believes a God."

"Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die."

"A Christian is the highest style of man."

"’Tis impious in a good man to be sad"

"A God all mercy is a God unjust."

"Man wants little, nor that little long."

"Wishing, of all employments, is the worst."

"And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one."

"Man makes a death which Nature never made."

"The knell, the shroud, the mattock, and the grave, The deep damp vault, the darkness and the worm."