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

. . . he who only or chiefly chose for Beauty, will in a little Time find the same Reason for another Choice.

For certainly there cannot be a higher pleasure than to think that we love and are beloved by the most amiable and best Being.

friendship is a virtue which comprehends all the rest; none being fit for this, who is not adorned with every other virtue.

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.

We may not commit a lesser Sin under pretence to avoid a greater, but we may, nay we ought to endure the greatest Pain and Grief rather than commit the least Sin.

The Soul debases her self, when she sets her affections on any thing but her creator.