All men would be tyrants if they could.

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

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

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.

I am giving an account of what was, not of what ought or ought not to be.

Today we love what tomorrow we hate, today we seek what tomorrow we shun, today we desire what tomorrow we fear, nay, even tremble at the apprehensions of.

Tis very strange men should be so fond of being wickeder than they are.