Lynn Holt

“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, Some Fruits Of Solitude

“Be not inhospitable to strangers, lest they be angels in disguise.”
― Yeats

“All his beauty, wit and grace
Lie forever in one place,
He who sang and sprang and moved
Now, in death, is only loved.”
― Alice Thomas Ellis, The Birds of the Air

“And therefore, Uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that [Christmas] has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol