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.

Women need not take up with mean things, since (if they are not wanting to themselves) they are capable of the best.

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.

Whilst our Hearts are violently set upon any thing, there is no convincing us that we shall ever be of another Mind.

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.

How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex?