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.

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

none can be Tyrants but Cowards.

We ought as much as we can to endeavour the Perfecting of our Beings, and that we be as happy as possibly we may.

Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail.

Women are from their very infancy debarred those Advantages with the want of which they are afterwards reproached.

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.