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.

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

Fetters of gold are still fetters, and the softest lining can never make them so easy as liberty.

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

To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he won't practise himself.

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

Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds.