The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence.

The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we go down without taking notice on't.

Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their Chains, and to discern how becomingly they fit.

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.

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.

How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex?

Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.