... if it were the fashion to go naked, the face would be hardly observed.

Gardening is certainly the next amusement to reading.

We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason; if some few get above their nurses instructions, our knowledge must rest concealed and be as useless to the world as gold in the mine.

While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.

It goes far towards reconciling me to being a woman, when I reflect that I am thus in no danger of ever marrying one.

I am patriot enough to take pains to bring this usefull invention into fashion in England, and I should not fail to write to some of our Doctors very particularly about it, if I knew anyone of 'em that I thought had Virtue enough to destroy such a considerable branch of Revenue for the good of Mankind, but that Distemper is too beneficial to them not to expose to all their Resentment the hardy wight that should undertake to put an end to it.

The one thing that reconciles me to the fact of being a woman is the reflection that it delivers me from the necessity of being married to one.