I would have every man write what he knows and no more.

Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind.

Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life.

Nature clasps all her creatures in a universal embrace; there is not one of them which she has not plainly furnished with all means necessary to the conservation of its being.

An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.

Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant to us, and invites us to them, not only by Reason, but also by Appetite: and ’tis Injustice to infringe her Laws.

It costs an unreasonable woman no more to pass over one reason than another; they cherish themselves most where they are most wrong.