The Hillsborough Recorder

The only things in which we can be said to have any property, are our actions. Our thoughts may be bad, yet produce no poison; they may be good, yet produce no fruit. Our riches may be taken from us by misfortune, our reputation by malice, our spirits by calumny, our health by disease, our friends by death. But our actions must follow us beyond the grave; with respect to them alone we cannot say that we shall carry nothing with us when we die, neither that we shall go naked out of the world. Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious; these are the only title deeds of which we cannot be disinherited: they will have their full weight in the balance of eternity, when every thing else is nothing, and their value will be confirmed and established by those too sure and sleepless destroyers of all other earthly things—time and death.