Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.

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

In their religion they are so uneven, That each man goes his own byway to heaven.

As I had once done thus in my breaking away from my Parents, so I could not be content now, but I must go and leave the happy View I had of being a rich and thriving Man in my new Plantation, only to pursue a rash and immoderate Desire of rising faster than the Nature of the Thing admitted; and thus I cast my self down again into the deepest Gulph of human Misery that ever Man fell into, or perhaps could be consistent with Life and a State of Health in the World.

What are the sorrows of other men to us, and what their joy?...

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.

No man commits evil for the sake of it; even the Devil himself has some farther design in sinning, than barely the wicked part of it.

How strange a checker-work of Providence is the life of man!

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.