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.

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.

Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know, and stand upon their Value, be so insensible of their own worth.

We ought as much as we can to endeavour the Perfecting of our Beings, and that we be as happy as possibly we may.

Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.

Women are from their very infancy debarred those Advantages with the want of which they are afterwards reproached.

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.