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

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.

The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.

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

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

Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best.

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.