Classic Epitaphs

CL-1
The soul that suffers is stronger than the soul that rejoices.

CL-2
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into Heaven.

CL-3
Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts, not amid joy.

CL-4
What seems to us but dim funeral tapers may be Heaven's distant lamps.

CL-5
Death is the golden key that opens the palace of Eternity.

CL-6
There is a sweet job that comes to us through sorrow.

CL-7
Earth hath no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.

CL-8
Heaven, the treasury of everlasting joy.

CL-9
Death is not foe, but an inevitable adventure.

CL-10
Every man's life is a plan of God.
CL-11
The acts of this life are the destiny of the next.

CL-12
Sorrows are like tall angels with star-crowns in their hair.

CL-13
The heart of him who truly loves is a paradise on Earth.

CL-14
Mutual love, the crown of all our bliss.

CL-15
To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

CL-16
Humble love, and not proud science, keeps the door of Heaven.

CL-17
The greatest attribute of Heaven is mercy.

CL-18
Mercy to him that shows it, is the rule.

CL-19
Nature's loving proxy, the watchful mother.

CL-20
Dust thou art returnest, was not spoken of the soul.