If a Woman can neither Love nor Honour, she does ill in promising to Obey.

If God had not intended that Women shou'd use their Reason, He wou'd not have given them any, 'for He does nothing in vain.

The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something, something considerable even in God's Eyes.

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

Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their Chains, and to discern how becomingly they fit.

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.