Things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed.

I had been tricked once by that Cheat called love, but the Game was over.

As I had once done thus in my breaking away from my Parents, so I could not be content now, but I must go and leave the happy View I had of being a rich and thriving Man in my new Plantation, only to pursue a rash and immoderate Desire of rising faster than the Nature of the Thing admitted; and thus I cast my self down again into the deepest Gulph of human Misery that ever Man fell into, or perhaps could be consistent with Life and a State of Health in the World.

For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first.

All the good things of the world are no further good to us than as they are of use; and of all we may heap up we enjoy only as much as we can use, and no more.

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

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