That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments.

How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex?

None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and Vertue.

Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it.

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

For certainly there cannot be a higher pleasure than to think that we love and are beloved by the most amiable and best Being.

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