“Have you not reason then to be ashamed and to forbear this filthy novelty, so basely grounded, so foolishly received and so grossly mistaken in the right use thereof. In your abuse thereof sinning against God harming yourselves both in person and goods, and raking also thereby the marks and notes of vanity upon you by the custom thereof making yourselves to be wondered at by all foreign civil nations and by all strangers that come among you to be scorned and held in contempt; a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.”

“To make women learned and foxes tame has the same effect - to make them more cunning.”

“No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.”

“Love yourself. Believe in yourself. Embrace yourself & the beauty thereof.”

“Life is for living and working at. If you find anything or anybody a bore, the fault is in yourself.”

“Mere pleasure is at best but fleeting; happiness is abiding, for in the recollection thereof is renewed.”

“Men fight wars. Women win them.”