Redemption from sin is greater then redemption from affliction.

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

My True Name is so well known in the Records, or Registers at Newgate, and in the Old-Baily, and there are some things of such Consequence still depending there, relating to my particular Conduct, that it is not to be expected I should set my Name, or the Account of my Family to this Work; perhaps, after my Death it may be better known, at present it would not be proper, no, not tho' a general Pardon should be issued, even without Exceptions and reserve of Persons or Crimes.

In the course of our lives, the evil which in itself we seek most to shun, and which, when we are fallen into, is the most dreadful to us, is oftentimes the very means or door of our deliverance, by which alone we can be raised again from the affliction we are fallen into.

Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.

Great families of yesterday we show, And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who.

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.