"Hence, vain deluding Joys, The brood of Folly without father bred! How little you bested, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys!"

"For indeed none can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license; which never hath more scope or more indulgence than under Tyrants."

"He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian."

"For what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint."

"For what more often than not is the cause of all our miseries, but the ill-matching of our desires, and the ill-governing of our affections?"