The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

With regard to the work itself, I dare not venture a judgment, for I do not understand it.

…he knew no other pleasure but what consisted in opposition.

We are all subjected to two distinct natures in the same person. I myself have suffered grievously in that way.

By that time he had pushed the bottle so long and so freely, that its fumes had taken possession of every brain to such a degree, that they held Dame Reason rather at the staff's end, overbearing all her counsels and expostulations.