"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?"

"It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters."

"God made man to rule, and not to be ruled by others."

"The greatest part of men are but a rude multitude, and have no more sense of things than children."

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