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.

None of us whether Men or Women but have so good an Opinion of our own Conduct as to believe we are fit, if not to direct others, at least to govern our selves.

none can be Tyrants but Cowards.

That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments.

Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know, and stand upon their Value, be so insensible of their own worth.

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.