As for our garments, my Mother did not only delight to see us neat and cleanly, fine and gay, but rich and costly: maintaining us to the heighth of her estate, but not beyond it.

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 dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.

Prosperity is like perfume, it often makes the head ache.

Indeed I had not much wit, yet I was not an idiot - my wit was according to my years.

As for our garments, my Mother did not only delight to see us neat and cleanly, fine and gay, but rich and costly: maintaining us to the heighth of her estate, but not beyond it.

For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses.

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