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

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.

[The Devil's] laws are easy, and his gentle sway, Makes it exceeding pleasant to obey .

For I cannot think that GOD Almighty ever made them [women] so delicate, so glorious creatures; and furnished them with such charms, so agreeable and so delightful to mankind; with souls capable of the same accomplishments with men: and all, to be only Stewards of our Houses, Cooks, and Slaves.

For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first.

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

Today we love what tomorrow we hate, today we seek what tomorrow we shun, today we desire what tomorrow we fear, nay, even tremble at the apprehensions of.