Roger L'Estrange

“ Socrates was in the Right in Saying, That in a Case a Man were to go where he should have the Choice before him, of All the Ill Things and All the Good Things in Nature, he would come home again the same Man that he went out. ”

“ To Ask Impossibilities, in fine, is Ridiculous, and to Ask Things Unnatural is Impious; for to take upon us to Blame, or Mend the Works of Providence, is to suppose the Divine Wisdom lyable to Miscarriages and Mistakes, These Mutterings are Foolish also, even to the Degree of Madness it self ”

“ IT stuck filthily in the Camel's Stomach, that Bulls, Stags, Lions, Bears, and the like, should be Armed with Horns, Teeth, and Claws, and that a Creature of his Size should be left Naked and Defenceless. Upon This Thought he fell down upon his Mary-bones, and begg d of Jupiter to give him a pair of Horns, but the Request was so Ridiculous, that Jupiter, instead of Horning him, Order'd him to be Cropt, and so Punish’d him with the loss of his Ears which Nature had Allow’d him, for being so Unreasonable as to Ask for Horns, that Providence never intended him. ”

“ And have not Brute Animals the same Equity of Complaint on the Other Hand, for want of the Facultics and Advantages, Intellectual, and Moral of Mankind? So that here's a Civil War that runs thorough All the Parts of the Universe, where Nothing is pleased with it's Own Lot ”