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• Bliss in possession will not last; Remembered joys are never pa
  At once the fountain, stream, and sea, They were, they are, they yet shall be....
• Beyond this vale of tears There is a life above, Unmeasured by the flight of yea
  And all that life is love. -- James Montgomery (1771-1854) -- The Issues of Life and Death...
• Joys too exquisite to last, And yet more exquisite when past.
  -- James Montgomery (1771-1854) -- The Little Cloud...
• When the good man yields his breath (For the good man never dies).
  -- James Montgomery (1771-1854) -- The Wanderer of Switzerland, Part v...
• I walked on toward Ploughwright, thinking about feces.
  What a lot we had found out about the prehistoric past from the study of fossilized dung of long-vanished animals....
• I walked on toward Ploughwright, thinking about feces.
  What a lot we had found out about the prehistoric past from the study of fossilized dung of long-vanished animals....
• I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately
  o front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived....
• It is the lot of man but once to die. -- Francis Quarles (1592-1644) -- Emblems, Book v, Emblem 7
• Counts his sure gains, and hurries back for more.
  -- James Montgomery (1771-1854) -- The West Indies, Part iii...