The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.

A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.

All human excellence is but comparative — there are persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

Tis certain that Morality is an indispensable Requisite of true Religion, and there can be none without it. But it would become the Pride and Ignorance of Pagans only, to magnify it, as the Whole of what is necessary.

Love is a blazing, crackling, green-wood flame, as much smoke as flame; friendship, married friendship particularly, is a steady,intense, comfortable fire. Love, in courtship, is friendship in hope; in matrimony, friendship upon proof.

Women love those best (whether men, women, or children) who give them most pain.

Who would not rather be the sufferer than the defrauder?