who can Perswade more Powerfully than Poets?

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

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

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

Nature, being a wise and provident lady, governs her parts very wisely, methodically, and orderly: Also, she is very industrious and hates to be idle, which makes her employ her time as a good housewife doth.

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.

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