A husband is indeed thought by both sexes so very valuable, that scarce a man who can keep himself clean and make a bow, but thinks he is good enough to pretend to any woman.
Mary AstellTo all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he won't practise himself.
Mary AstellFor certainly there cannot be a higher pleasure than to think that we love and are beloved by the most amiable and best Being.
Mary Astell