A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

I say that male and female are cast in the same mold; except for education and habits, the difference is not great.

I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man's estate.

I must use these great men's virtues as a cloak for my weakness.

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

Who so hath his mind on taking, hath it no more on what he taketh.

He that had never seen a river, imagined the first he met with to be the sea.