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

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

I think a bad husband is far worse than no husband.

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

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.

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.