Do not suppose, my dearest ones, that when I have left you I shall be nowhere and no one. Even when I was with you, you did not see my soul, but knew that it was in this body of mine from what I did. Believe then that it is still the same, even though you see it not . . . Wherefore, . . . preserve my memory by the loyalty and piety of your lives. ~Cicero
I don’t care what they say with their mouths—everybody knows that something is eternal. And it ain’t houses, and it ain’t names, and it ain’t earth, and it ain’t even the stars—everybody knows in their bones that something is eternal, and that something has to do with human beings. All the greatest people who ever lived have been telling us that for five thousand years and yet you’d be surprised how people are always losing hold of it. There’s something way down deep that’s eternal about every human being. ~ Thornton Wilder
“It matters not at what hour the righteous fall asleep. Death cannot come ultimately to him who is fit to die. The less of this cold world, the more of heaven; the briefer the life, the earlier immortality.” ~Henry Hart Milman
(from Richard Evans Quote Book, Publishers Press 1971 p.115 & 116)
