"He who marries a wife, and knows not how to rule her, is like him who takes a wild beast into his house, and knows not how to tame it."

"Abashed the devil stood, and felt how awful goodness is."

"Promiscuous reading is necessary to the constituting of human nature."

"For what can be more unjust than to throw the blame of a bad cause upon the fault of the first man?"

"Hence, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest midnight born, In Stygian cave forlorn 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy!"