"Death is but Crossing the World, as Friends do the Seas; they live in one another still.
"For they must needs be present, that love and live in that which is omnipresent.
"In this Divine Glass they see Face to Face; and their converse is Free as well as Pure.
"This is the Comfort of Friends, that though they may be said to Die, yet their Friendship and Society are, in the best Sense, ever present, because Immortal."
William Penn.
SEPTEMBER 4
"Parting and forgetting? What faithful heart can do these? Our great thoughts, our great affections, the Truths of our life, never leave us. Surely they cannot separate from our consciousness; shall follow it whithersoever that shall go; and are of their nature divine and immortal."
Thackeray.
"I can only say that I sympathise with your grief, and if faith means anything at all it is trusting to those instincts, or feelings, or whatever they may be called, which assure us of some life after this."