I had rather live and love where death is king, than have eternal life where love is not. At A Child's Grave (1882)
No man, standing where the horizon of a life has touched a grave, has any right to prophesy a future filled with pain and tears. At A Child's Grave (1882)
I know how vain it is to gild a grief with words, and yet I wish to take from every grave its fear. At A Child's Grave (1882)
Every cradle asks us, "Whence?" and every coffin, "Whither?" The poor barbarian, weeping above his dead, can answer these questions as intelligently as the robed priest of the most authentic creed. At A Child's Grave (1882)