“Death is the looking-glass of life wherein / Each man may scan the aspect of his deeds.”— Alfred Austin, Savonarola, 1881Share
“Hospitality should be accidental, spontaneous, and impulsive, not pre-arranged and calculated.”— Alfred AustinShare
“Let your house / Be spacious more than splendid, and be books / And busts your most conspicuous furniture.”— Alfred AustinShare
“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.”— C.S. LewisShare
“Ye are better than all the ballads that ever were sung or said; for ye are living poems, and all the rest are dead.”— Henry Wadsworth LongfellowShare
“Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.”— George Bernard ShawShare