None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and Vertue.

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

God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him.

Why is Slavery so much condemn'd and strove against in one Case, and so highly applauded and held so necessary and so sacred in another?

Women are from their very infancy debarred those advantages with the want of which they are aftewards reproached, and nursed up in those vices which will hereafter be upbraided to them. So partial are men as to expect bricks when they afford no straw.

none can be Tyrants but Cowards.

Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best.