O sleep, thou ape of death, lie dull upon her and be her sense but as a monument, thus in a chapel lying.
The final delusion is the belief that one has lost all delusions.
Were I a Roman Catholic, perhaps I should on this occasion vow to build a chapel to some saint, but as I am not, if I were to vow at all, it should be to build a light-house. [Letter to his wife, 17 July 1757, after narrowly avoiding a shipwreck; often misquoted as "Lighthouses are more helpful than churches."]