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

Why then should women be denied the benefits of instruction? If knowledge and understanding had been useless additions to the sex, God almighty would never have given them capacities.

All the good things of the world are no further good to us than as they are of use; and of all we may heap up we enjoy only as much as we can use, and no more.

Justice is always Violence to the Party offending, for every Man is Innocent in his own Eyes.

An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.

For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first.

All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them.