We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can, and we need no Instructor to teach us this Knowledge, 'tis born with us, and is inseparable from our Being, but we very much need to be Inform'd what is the true Way to Happiness.

Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it.

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.

If all men are born free, why is it that all women are born slaves?

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

He who will be just, must be forc'd to acknowledge, that neither Sex are always in the right.

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