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

Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail.

If none were to Marry, but Men of strict Vertue and Honour, I doubt the World would be but thinly peopled.

Women are from their very infancy debarred those advantages with the want of which they are aftewards reproached, and nursed up in those vices which will hereafter be upbraided to them. So partial are men as to expect bricks when they afford no straw.

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

Fetters of gold are still fetters, and the softest lining can never make them so easy as liberty.

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.