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

For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance.

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

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.

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

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 natures and affectionate dispositions.

Not that I am ashamed of my mind or body, my birth or breeding, my actions or fortunes, for my bashfulness is in my nature, not for any crime.