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.

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.

For my part I think the Learned, and Unlearned Blockhead pretty equal; for 'tis all one to me, whether a Man talk Nonsense, or unintelligible Sense, I am diverted and edified alike by either; the one enjoys himself less, but suffers his Friends to do it more; the other enjoys himself and his own Humour enough, but will let no body else do it in his Company.

Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best.

That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it to us holds.

God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him.

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