It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.

If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.

The richest princes and the poorest beggars are to have one great and just judge at the last day who will not distinguish betweenthem according to their ranks when in life but according to the neglected opportunities afforded to each. How much greater then, as the opportunities were greater, must be the condemnation of the one than of the other?

Women are sometimes drawn in to believe against probability by the unwillingness they have to doubt their own merit.

Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.

Chastity, like piety, is a uniform grace.

A man who insults the modesty of a woman, as good as tells her that he has seen something in her conduct that warranted his presumption.