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Excerpt from A Discourse on the Life and Character of William Wirt, Late Attorney General of the United States: Pronounced at the Request of the Baltimore Bar Before the Citizens of Baltimore, on the 20th of May, 1834
Yet sorrow rises on the heart and must have its way. To the good and the wise it is a natural emotion and has its privileges: to them, however, it is only sorrow, not fear. For a departed friend our regrets are seemly badges of respect. They betoken pain at being separated from one who was aifined to our affections by strong endearment and are, there fore, tributes to the worth of the person who has left us: they are scarcely less poignant when we lose a cherished companion, who has gone upon a far adventure to pass many years in distant climes. It is the thought of broken intercourse, more than of dissolution, that brings anguish to the religious mind.
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