O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! — I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else! - Samuel Richardson

And what after all, is death?? 'Tis but a cessation from mortal life; 'tis but the finishing of an appointed course; the refreshing inn after a fatiguing journey; the end of a life of cares and troubles; and, if happy, the beginning of a life of immortal happiness.

Where the world is inclined to favour, replied I, it is apt to over-rate, as much as it will under-rate where it disfavours.

Of what violences, murders, depredations, have not the epic poets, from all antiquity, been the occasion, by propagating false honour, false glory, and false religion?