Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.

He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Your highest female grace is silence.

Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.

The way to rise is to obey and please.

The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.

Confound these ancestors... They've stolen our best ideas!