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.

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 afterwards reproached.

If a Woman can neither Love nor Honour, she does ill in promising to Obey.

The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something, something considerable even in God's Eyes.

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

None of us whether Men or Women but have so good an Opinion of our own Conduct as to believe we are fit, if not to direct others, at least to govern our selves.