Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred.

I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado or ceremony, than feed upon turkey at another man?s table, where one is fain to sit mincing and chewing his meat an hour together, drink little, be always wiping his fingers and his chops, and never dare to cough nor sneeze, though he has never so much a mind to it, nor do a many things which a body may do freely by one?s self.

It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.

Sorrow was made for man, not for beasts; yet if men encourage melancholy too much, they become no better than beasts.

The woman who is resolved to be respected can make herself be so even amidst an army of soldiers.

Treason pleases, but not the traitor.

The beauty of some women has days and seasons, depending upon accidents which diminish or increase it; nay, the very passions of the mind naturally improve or impair it, and very often utterly destroy it.