Those possest of the greatest Virtues are always least pleas'd with the repetition of them.
Eliza HaywoodTo know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.
Eliza HaywoodThose Women who boast the Affections of their Admirers, have a greater share of Vanity than Love.
Eliza HaywoodNothing can be more true, than that the greatest Boasters have the least of what they pretend to.
Eliza HaywoodMost People are wretched more by the Fears of what may come, than what they endure at present. ... a manifest Contradiction to good Sense; for who, with the right use of that, wou'd lose the Enjoyment of a present Comfort, to lament a Misfortune only in Supposition; which ten to one never comes to pass.
Eliza Haywood