Guess What This Is From?

OK...since you all seem to be having trouble with this and Ive only had one stab at it(and that was from some wimp that wouldnt identify himself) Ill give you a hint....It is from a national bestseller.

It is a great wonder how Almighty God in His magnificance favours our race with rank and scope and the gift of wisdom: His sway is wide. Sometimes He allows the mind of a man of distinguished birth to follow its bent, grants him fulfillment and felicity on earth and forts to command in his own country. He permits him to lord it in many lands until the man in his own unthinkingness forgets that it will ever end for him. He indulges his desires; illness and old age mean nothing to him; his mind is untroubled by envy or malice or the thought of enemies with their hate-honed swords.