Henry Vaughan's Quotes

Man hath still either toys or care: But hath no root, nor to one place is tied, but ever restless and irregular, about this earth doth run and ride. He knows he hath a home, but scarce knows where; He says it is so far, that he has quite forgot how to go there.

Caesar had perished from the world of men, had not his sword been rescued by his pen.

They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

So stick up ivy and the bays, and then restore the heathen ways, green will remind you of the Spring, though this great day denies the thing, and mortifies the earth, and all, but your wild revels, and loose hall.

Noting that Huckleberry Finn was originally both valued and reviled because it shows the reader that the accepted moral code and social hierarchy is not always correct.

This is a much more fitting interpretation of the book than its modern interpretation.

Use of the word; the word itself was not printed.