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

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

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

The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.

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

Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail.

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