Honor's a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
Joseph AddisonWe are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.
Joseph AddisonA source of cheerfulness to a good mind is the consideration of that Being on whom we have our dependence, and in whom, though we behold Him as yet but in the first faint discoveries of His perfections, we see everything that we can imagine as great glorious, or amiable. We find ourselves everywhere upheld by His goodness and surrounded by an immensity of love and mercy.
Joseph Addison