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

Today we love what tomorrow we hate, today we seek what tomorrow we shun, today we desire what tomorrow we fear, nay, even tremble at the apprehensions of.

Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.

And I add this part here, to hint to whoever shall read it, that whenever they come to a true Sense of things, they will find Deliverance from Sin a much greater Blessing than Deliverance from Affliction.

What are the sorrows of other men to us, and what their joy?

It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.

Alas the Church of England! What with Popery on one hand, and schismatics on the other, how has she been crucified between two thieves!