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

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

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.

To plead for the Oppress'd and to defend the Weak seem'd to me a generous undertaking; for tho' it may be secure, 'tis not always Honourable to run over to the strongest party.

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

Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail.

Why is Slavery so much condemn'd and strove against in one Case, and so highly applauded and held so necessary and so sacred in another?