Alas the Church of England! What with Popery on one hand, and schismatics on the other, how has she been crucified between two thieves!

I saw the Cloud, though I did not foresee the Storm.

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.

The Dutch must be understood as they really are, the Middle Persons in Trade, the Factors and Brokers of Europe... they buy to sell again, take in to send out again, and the greatest Part of their vast Commerce consists in being supply'd from All Parts of the World, that they may supply All th World Again.

It is never too late to be wise.

He that opposes his own judgment against the consent of the times ought to be backed with unanswerable truths; and he that has truth on his side is a fool as well as a coward if he is afraid to own it because of other men's opinions.

And of all plagues with which mankind are curst, Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.