Chastity, like piety, is a uniform grace.

Women are sometimes drawn in to believe against probability by the unwillingness they have to doubt their own merit.

The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.

Of what violences, murders, depredations, have not the epic poets, from all antiquity, been the occasion, by propagating false honor, false glory, and false religion?

Those who doubt themselves most generally err least.

Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.

Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.