Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best.

For certainly there cannot be a higher pleasure than to think that we love and are beloved by the most amiable and best Being.

Marry for Love, an Heroick Action, which makes a mighty noise in the World, partly because of its rarity, and partly in regard of its extravagancy.

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.

Certain I am, that Christian Religion does no where allow Rebellion.

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

Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business. Hence come those frequent absences, so observable in conversation; for whilst the body is confined to present company, the mind is flown to that which it delights in.