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

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.

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.

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.

No shoots, says Friday, no yet, me shoot now, me no kill; me stay, give you one more laugh.

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.