Ornate rhetorick taught out of the rule of Plato.... To which poetry would be made subsequent, or indeed rather precedent, as being less suttle and fine, but more simple, sensuous, and passionate.

If the will, which in the law of our nature, were withdrawn from our memory, fancy, understanding, and reason, no other hell could equal, for a spiritual being, what we should then feel from the anarchy of our powers. It would be conscious madness,--a horrid thought!

To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.

Pandemonium, the high capital Of Satan and his peers.

Virtue, which breaks through opposition and all temptation can remove, most shines, and most is acceptable above.

Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

And to the faithful: death, the gate of life.