Justice is always Violence to the Party offending, for every Man is Innocent in his own Eyes.

This grieved me heartily ; and now I saw, though too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the cost, and before we judge rightly of our own strength to go through with it.

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

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.

All men would be tyrants if they could.

I had been tricked once by that Cheat called love, but the Game was over.

Pride, the first peer and president of Hell.