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

First, they were bred when I was not capable to observe or before I was born; likewise the breeding of men is of a different manner from that of women.

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

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

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

And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty.

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.