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• Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray
  Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way....
• Teach him how to live, And, oh still harder lesson!
  how to die. -- Beilby Porteus (1731-1808) -- Death, Line 316...
• War its thousands slays, Peace its ten thousands.
  -- Beilby Porteus (1731-1808) -- Death, Line 178...
• One murder made a villain, Millions a hero. Princes were privileged To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime.
  -- Beilby Porteus (1731-1808) -- Death, Line 154...
• He who foresees calamities, suffers them twice over. -- Beilby Porteu
• Beyond this vale of tears There is a life above, Unmeasured by the flight of yea
  And all that life is love. -- James Montgomery (1771-1854) -- The Issues of Life and Death...
• Rural life is lived mostly in the country
• Tea! thou soft, thou sober sage, and venerable liquid
  hou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wink tippling cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moments of ny life, let me fall prostrate!...
• Silly is a state of Mind, Stupid is a way of Life.