Thoughts are like stars in the firmament; some are fixed, others like the wandering planets, others again are only like meteors. Understanding is like the Sun, which gives light to all the thoughts. Memory is like the Moon, it hath its new, its full and its wane.

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

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

Some brains are barren grounds, that will not bring seed or fruit forth, unless they are well manured with the old wit which is raked from other writers and speakers.

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.

Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit.

who can Perswade more Powerfully than Poets?