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…

- Beilby Porteus

Bad thoughts quickly ripen into bad actions.

- Beilby Porteus

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

- Beilby Porteus

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.

- Beilby Porteus

War its thousands slays, Peace its ten thousands.

- Beilby Porteus

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

- Beilby Porteus

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

- Beilby Porteus

One murder makes a villian, millions a hero

- Beilby Porteus