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

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

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.

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

who can Perswade more Powerfully than Poets?

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

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.