This grieved me heartily ; and now I saw, though too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the cost, and before we judge rightly of our own strength to go through with it.

He look'd a little disorder'd, when he said this, but I did not apprehend any thing from it at that time, believing as it us'd to be said, that they who do those things never talk of them; or that they who talk of such things never do them.

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

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

I am giving an account of what was, not of what ought or ought not to be.

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.

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