
Source: Attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 262.
Paschal Homily
Source: Attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 262.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 101.
What is Religion? (1893)
Napoleon the Little (1852), Conclusion, Part Second, II
Napoleon the Little (1852)
“Let me say
and not mourn: the world
lives in the death of speech
and sings there.”
The Silence.
Poems
Founding Address (1876), Life and Destiny (1913)
Context: Let us learn from the lips of death the lessons of life. Let us live truly while we live, live for what is true and good and lasting. And let the memory of our dead help us to do this. For they are not wholly separated from us, if we remain loyal to them. In spirit they are with us. And we may think of them as silent, invisible, but real presences in our households.
“Let no man fear to die: We love to sleep all,
And death is but the sounder sleep.”
Act III, scene 6.
The Humorous Lieutenant (c. 1619; published 1647)
Source: A Thousand-Mile Walk To the Gulf, 1916, chapter 4: Camping Among the Tombs, page 140