Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds.

Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it.

Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business. Hence come those frequent absences, so observable in conversation; for whilst the body is confined to present company, the mind is flown to that which it delights in.

We ought as much as we can to endeavour the Perfecting of our Beings, and that we be as happy as possibly we may.

The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters.

Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail.

Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know, and stand upon their Value, be so insensible of their own worth.