A Wise Man Should Never Resolve Upon

We Pick Out A Text Here And There To Make It Serve Our Turn; Whereas , If We Take It All Together, And Considered What Went Before And What Followed After, We Should Find It Meant No Such Thing.

Gentelmen Heve Ever Been More Temperate In Their Religion Than Common People, As Having More Reason.

He That Has Not Religion To Govern His Morality, Is Not A Dram Better Than My Mastiff-dog; So Long As You Stroke Him, And Please Him, And Do Not Pinch Him, He Will Play With You As Finely As May Be, He Is A Very Good Moral Mastiff; But If You Hurt Him, He Will Fly In Your Face, And Tear Out Your Throat.

Pride May Be Allowed To This Or That Degree, Else A Man Cannot Keep Up His Dignity.

Pleasure Is Nothing Else But The Intermission Of Pain, The Enjoying Of Something I Am In Great Trouble For Till I Have It.