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

Women need not take up with mean things, since (if they are not wanting to themselves) they are capable of the best.

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

But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?

Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.

none can be Tyrants but Cowards.

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