Roger L'Estrange

“ This Unequal, and Unreasonable Judgment of Things, brings many a Great Man to the Stool of Repentance; for when he has Swallow’d more then he can Digest, it flicks upon his Conscience, and will neither Up, nor Down, Now in the Sight of Heaven, the Greater the Temptation, the Less is the Sins and yet in the Vogue of the World, it passes for an Exploit of Honour, for Kings and States to run away with Whole Countries that they have no Colour, or Pretence to ”

“ Wicked Dispositions should be Check’d betimes; for when they come once to Habits, they grow Incurable. More People go to the Gibbet for want of Timely Instruction, Discipline, and Correction, then upon any Incurable Pravity of Nature ”

“ And it is mightily the Fault of Parents, Guardians, Tutors and Governors, that so many men Miscarry. They susser’em at first to Run-a head, and when Perverse Inclinations are Advanc'd once into Habits, there's No Dealing with ’em. It may seem somewhat a Hard Case for the Greater Thieves to Punish the Less, and to see Publique Purloyners and Oppressors fit in Triumph upon the Lives of the Little Ones that go to the Gallows: For the Tye of Morality is the same upon Both ”