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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it to us holds.