"Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: Angels do not accompany the travellers who have with them a dog and a bell."

"There she stood in the doorway, I heard the mission bell and I was thinking to myself: "This could be Heaven or this could be Hell.""

"How sweet on the breeze of the evening swells The vesper call of those soothing bells, Borne softly and dying in echoes away, Like a requiem sung to the parting day."

"Silver bells, silver bells. It's Christmas time in the city, ring-a-ling."

"How like the leper, with his own sad cry Enforcing his own solitude, it tolls! That lonely bell set in the rushing shoals, To warn us from the place of jeopardy!"