“The life of the husbandman,—a life fed by the bounty of earth and sweetened by the airs of heaven.”

“and that is what heaven is for, for understanding your life on Earth.”

“Friendship! mysterious cement of the soul!
Sweetener of life! and solder of society!”

“So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.”

“The Earth with its scarred face is the symbol of the Past; the Air and Heaven, of Futurity.”

“You are not separate from the whole. You are one with the sun, the earth, the air. You don’t have a life. You are life.”

“for earth were too like heaven,
If length of life to love were given.”

“Supply the link, and earth with Heaven will join
In one continued chain of endless life.”

“On this sinful, fallen earth, life will remain difficult, fraught with suffering and sadness. But we are looking forward to heaven—and heaven is always better in every realm than the earth.”

“Indifference to life and indifference to the purity and amenity that sweeten existence must necessarily go together.”