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.

To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he won't practise himself.

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.

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

Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail.

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

If God had not intended that Women shou'd use their Reason, He wou'd not have given them any, 'for He does nothing in vain.