The truth is, we [women] live like bats, or owls, labor like beasts, and die like worms..

As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity..

And not only my own brothers and sisters agreed so but my brothers and sisters in law; and their children, although but young, had the like agreeable….

who can Perswade more Powerfully than Poets?.

If Atomes are as small, as small can bee,They must in quantity of Matter all agree.

A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel disposition….

For I had rather die in the adventure ot noble achievements, then live in obscure and sluggish security..

One may be my very good friend, and yet not of my opinion..

I think a bad husband is far worse than no husband..

Everyone's conscience in religion is between God and themselves, and it belongs to none other..

And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him brea….