Tis very strange men should be so fond of being wickeder than they are.
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.
As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
The best of men cannot suspend their fate; The good die early, and the bad die late.
For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first.
I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.