I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.

What are the sorrows of other men to us, and what their joy?

Thus we never see the true state of our condition till it is illustrated to us by its contraries, nor know how to value what we enjoy, but by the want of it.

Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme.

I had been tricked once by that Cheat called love, but the Game was over.

Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.

Alas the Church of England! What with Popery on one hand, and schismatics on the other, how has she been crucified between two thieves!