"If we are understood, more words are unnecessary; if we are not likely to be understood, they are useless."

"Mrs. Lane and I took our journey towards Bristol, resolving to lie at a place called Long Marson, in the vale of Esha…"

"We saw, that no Expedient would be entertain'd but that of a total Exclusion, which We had so often declar'd, was a P…"

"And who cannot but remember, That Religion, Liberty and Property were all lost and gone, when the Monarchy was shaken…"

"He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it."

"Let not poor Nelly starve."

"A man of words and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds..."

"There is no king in the world, who can so experimentally testify of God's providence and goodness; neither is there a…"

"It is practically impossible to separate the failure of the Restoration Settlements from the personality of King Char…"

"Better than a play!"