It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time. - James Boswell

I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically.

Boswell is pleasant and gay, For frolic by nature designed; He heedlessly rattles away When company is to his mind.

But we find that war is followed by no general good whatever. The power, the glory, or the wealth of a very few may be enlarged. But the people in general, upon both sides, after all the sufferings are passed, pursue their ordinary occupations, with no difference from their former state. The evils therefore of war... are a mere loss without any advantage...