Why is Slavery so much condemn'd and strove against in one Case, and so highly applauded and held so necessary and so sacred in another?

How can you be content to be in the world like tulips in a garden, to make a fine show, and be good for nothing.

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.

Fetters of gold are still fetters, and the softest lining can never make them so easy as liberty.

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.

If none were to Marry, but Men of strict Vertue and Honour, I doubt the World would be but thinly peopled.

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