“The wife, where danger or dishonor lurks, safest and seemliest by her husband stays, who guards her, or with her the worst endures.”

“Most men admireVirtue who follow not her lore.”

“Let her [Truth] and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter? Her confuting is the best and surest suppressing.”

“A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.”

“Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?”

“Though all winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and falsehood grapple, who ever knew truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter.”

“I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. ”