'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.

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

Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.

It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.

All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them.

He that Opposes his own Judgment against the Current of the Times, ought to be back'd with unanswerable Truths; and he that has that Truth on his Side, is a Fool, as well as a Coward, if he is afraid to own it, because of the Currency or Multitude of other Mens Opinions.

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.