It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.

Be sure don't let people's telling you, you are pretty, puff you up; for you did not make yourself, and so can have no praise due to you for it. It is virtue and goodness only, that make the true beauty.

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

Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.

Men are less forgiving than women.

I know not my own heart if it be not absolutely free.

Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.