Marry for Love, an Heroick Action, which makes a mighty noise in the World, partly because of its rarity, and partly in regard of its extravagancy.

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

For certainly there cannot be a higher pleasure than to think that we love and are beloved by the most amiable and best Being.

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.

Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know, and stand upon their Value, be so insensible of their own worth.

We must Think what we Say, and Mean what we Profess.

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