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 men would be tyrants if they could.

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

'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.

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

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.

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