Earth is the anteroom of Heaven, if we choose to see it so.

There is no sudden entrance into Heaven.Slow is the ascent by the path of Love.

This is the way of it, sad earth over,The heart that breaks is the heart of the lover,And the other learns to forget.For what is the use of endless sorrow?Though the sun goes down, it will rise to-morrow;And life is not over yet.

Between the finite and the infiniteThe missing link of Love has left a void.Supply the link, and earth with Heaven will joinIn one continued chain of endless life.

Laugh and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own

The two kinds of people on earth that I meanAre the people who lift and the people who lean.