Charity ... is kind, it is not easily provok'd, it thinks no evil, it believes all things, hopes all things.
Cotton MatherIs this dying? Is this all? Is this what I feared when I prayed against a hard death? Oh, I can bear this! I can bear this!
Cotton MatherYe monsters of the bubbling deep, Your Maker's praises spout; Up from the sands ye codlings peep, And wag your tails about.
Cotton Mather