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

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

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

God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him.

We may not commit a lesser Sin under pretence to avoid a greater, but we may, nay we ought to endure the greatest Pain and Grief rather than commit the least Sin.

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.

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