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

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.

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.

The best of men cannot suspend their fate; The good die early, and the bad die late.

Friends are good,--good, if well chosen.

For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first.

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.