The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.

We may not commit a lesser Sin under pretence to avoid a greater, but we may, nay we ought to endure the greatest Pain and Grief rather than commit the least Sin.

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

We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can, and we need no Instructor to teach us this Knowledge, 'tis born with us, and is inseparable from our Being, but we very much need to be Inform'd what is the true Way to Happiness.

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

Whilst our Hearts are violently set upon any thing, there is no convincing us that we shall ever be of another Mind.

. . . he who only or chiefly chose for Beauty, will in a little Time find the same Reason for another Choice.