The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we go down without taking notice on't.

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

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.

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.

That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it to us holds.

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

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