A soul exasperated in ills, falls out With everything, its friend, itself.

When a man has been guilty of any vice or folly, the best atonement he can make for it is to warn others not to fall into the like.

It is indeed very possible, that the Persons we laugh at may in the main of their Characters be much wiser Men than our selves; but if they would have us laugh at them, they must fall short of us in those Respects which stir up this Passion.

I have often thought, says Sir Roger, it happens very well that Christmas should fall out in the middle of Winter.

How can it enter into the thoughts of man, that the soul, which is capable of such immense perfections, and of receiving new improvements to all eternity, shall fall away into nothing almost as soon as it is created?