Those who consecrate their lives self-sacrificingly to the service of humanity are regarded as the best of men.

[…] it is necessary that he should pass through a period of temporary death, for which state he prepares in the following manner, building to himself a secure and convenient tomb, wherein he lies decently inurned till the appointed moment when he is to arise from his inactive state, and become the inhabitant of another element.

the leit-motif, that much-vaunted invention of programmists

I'll have some of the red ones, some green ones, and them yellow ones and all.