Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death. – Pearl S. Buck

The light of her earthly existence is now extinguished forever. – Elizabeth J. Eames, “An Autumn Reverie,” October 1840

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror. – David Herbert Lawrence