For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow.—Job 8:9.
You and I are now nearly in middle age, and have not yet become soured and shrivelled with the wear and tear of life. Let us pray to be delivered from that condition where life and nature have no fresh, sweet sensations for us.—James A. Garfield.
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.—Dr. Johnson.
I slept and dreamed that life was beauty;
I woke and found that life was duty.
—Ellen Sturgis Hooper.
The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends.—William Penn.
Let those who thoughtfully consider the brevity of life remember the length of eternity.—Bishop Ken.
Light.—We should render thanks to God for having produced this temporal light, which is the smile of heaven and joy of the world, spreading it like a cloth of gold over the face of the air and earth, and lighting it as a torch by which we might behold His works.—Caussin.
Hail, holy light! offspring of heaven first-born.—Milton.
Light itself is a great corrective. A thousand wrongs and abuses that are grown in darkness disappear, like owls and bats, before the light of day.—James A. Garfield.
I am the light of the world.—John 9:5.