How can you be content to be in the world like tulips in a garden, to make a fine show, and be good for nothing.

We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can, and we need no Instructor to teach us this Knowledge, 'tis born with us, and is inseparable from our Being, but we very much need to be Inform'd what is the true Way to Happiness.

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.

He who will be just, must be forc'd to acknowledge, that neither Sex are always in the right.

Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail.

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.

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