The joy resulting from the diffusion of blessings to all around us is the purest and sublimest that can ever enter the human mind, and can be conceiv….

Through the sequester'd vale of rural life The venerable patriarch guileless held The tenor of his way..

Love is something so divine, Description would but make it less; 'Tis what I feel, but can't define, 'Tis what I know but can't express.

Bad thoughts quickly ripen into bad actions..

But chiefly Thou, Whom soft-eyed Pity once led down from Heaven To bleed for man, to teach him how to live, And, oh! still harder lesson! how to die..

War its thousands slays, Peace its ten thousands..

One murder made a villain, Millions a hero. Princes were privileged To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime..

One murder makes a villian, millions a hero.