Tis very strange men should be so fond of being wickeder than they are.

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

Now, said I aloud, My dear Father's Words are come to pass: God's Justice has overtaken me, and I have none to help or hear me: I rejected the Voice of Providence.

All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.

It happen'd one Day about Noon going towards my Boat, I was exceedingly surpriz'd with the Print of a Man's naked Foot on the Shore.

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

It put me upon reflecting how little repining there would be among mankind at any condition of life, if people would rather compare their condition with those that were worse, in order to be thankful, than be always comparing them with those which are better, to assist their murmurings and complaining.