Hannah Cowley

Every body about me seem'd happy but every body seem'd in a hurry to be happy somewhere else.

It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.

Secrets are pleasant to each child of Eve.

I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!

The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write.