"Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?"

"I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated a…"

"Our founders were insightful students of human nature. They feared the abuse of power because they understood that ev…"

"It must not be supposed, however, that because we said that by the righteous decision of God each man is tempted in p…"

"This strength, therefore, which is given to us in order that we may be able to conquer, we by the exercise of our fre…"

"Moreover the book of the Shepherd asserts the teaching that two angels attend each human being, and saying that whene…"

"We must bear in mind, however, that nothing else happens to us as a result of these good or evil thoughts which are s…"

"Bell, book and candle shall not drive me back, When gold and silver becks me to come on."

"How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds Makes ill deeds done!"

"But Satan now is wiser than of yore, And tempts by making rich, not making poor."