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- For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses. — Margaret Cavendish
- For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance. — Margaret Cavendish
- In such misfortunes my Mother was of an heroic spirit, in suffering patiently when there was no remedy, and being industrious where she thought she could help. — Margaret Cavendish
- My mother was a good mistress to her servants, taking care of them in their sicknesses, not sparing any cost she was able to bestow for their recovery. — Margaret Cavendish
- First, they were bred when I was not capable to observe or before I was born; likewise the breeding of men is of a different manner from that of women. — Margaret Cavendish
- But if our sex would but well consider and rationally ponder, they will perceive and find that it is neither words nor place that can advance them, but worth and merit. — Margaret Cavendish