Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

I know not what to call this, nor will I urge that it is a secret, overruling decree, that hurries us on to be the instruments of our own destruction, even though it be before us, and that we rush upon it with our eyes open.

Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.

Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.

Friends are good,--good, if well chosen.

Now, said I aloud, My dear Father's Words are come to pass: God's Justice has overtaken me, and I have none to help or hear me: I rejected the Voice of Providence.

[The Devil's] laws are easy, and his gentle sway, Makes it exceeding pleasant to obey .