Be sure don't let people's telling you, you are pretty, puff you up; for you did not make yourself, and so can have no praise due to you for it. It is virtue and goodness only, that make the true beauty.

Chastity, like piety, is a uniform grace.

Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.

For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.

It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.

Women's eyes are wanderers, and too often bring home guests that are very troublesome to them, and whom, once introduced, they cannot get out of the house.

The richest princes and the poorest beggars are to have one great and just judge at the last day who will not distinguish betweenthem according to their ranks when in life but according to the neglected opportunities afforded to each. How much greater then, as the opportunities were greater, must be the condemnation of the one than of the other?