I could not forbear getting up to the top of a little mountain, and looking out to sea, in hopes of seeing a ship : then fancy that, at a vast distance, I spied a sail, please myself with the hopes of it, and, after looking steadily, till I was almost blind, lose it quite, and sit down and weep like a child, and thus increase my misery by my folly.

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

And of all plagues with which mankind are curst, Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.

Pride, the first peer and president of Hell.

Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme.

Not the man in the moon, not the groaning-board, not the speaking of friar Bacon's brazen- head, not the inspiration of mother Shipton, or the miracles of Dr. Faustus, things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed.

All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them.