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.

Experience has further taught me this, that we ruin ourselves by impatience.

It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole, or to hide herself under some massive tomb, thereby to shun the strokes of fortune.

I have never known a greater miracle, or monster, than myself.

Truth and reason are common to everyone, and are no more his who spake them first than his who speaks them after.

It is a rare life that remains orderly even in private.

After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and immutable example unto all posterity, for the moderation and required modesty in a lawful marriage, ordained the number of six times a day as a lawful, necessary and competent limit.