[t]he Judicious Reader Ought To Know What

There Appears To Be But Two Grand Master Passions Or Movers In The Human Mind, Namely, Love And Pride. And What Constitutes The Beauty Or Deformity Of A Man's Character Is The Choice He Makes Under Which Banner He Determines To Enlist Himself. But There Is A Strong Distinction Between Different Degress In The Same Thing And A Mixture Of Two Contraries.

[t]he Judicious Reader Ought To Know What The Chief Character In Any Work Of The Imagination Will Naturally Perform, According To The Situation He Is Thrown Into, As Well As Doth The Author Himself.

The Loss Of Liberty Which Must Attend Being A Wife Was Of All Things The Most Horrible To My Imagination.

If Modesty And Candor Are Necessary To An Author In His Judgment Of His Own Works, No Less Are They In His Reader.

I Was Condemned To Be Beheaded, Or Burnt, As The King Pleased; And He Was Graciously Pleased, From The Great Remains Of His Love, To Choose The Mildest Sentence.