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

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

friendship is a virtue which comprehends all the rest; none being fit for this, who is not adorned with every other virtue.

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

Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business. Hence come those frequent absences, so observable in conversation; for whilst the body is confined to present company, the mind is flown to that which it delights in.

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

Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail.