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That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it to us holds.

If a Woman can neither Love nor Honour, she does ill in promising to Obey.

If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?

If God had not intended that Women shou'd use their Reason, He wou'd not have given them any, 'for He does nothing in vain.'

If none were to Marry, but Men of strict Vertue and Honour, I doubt the World would be but thinly peopled.

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

It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism.

None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and Vertue.

How can you be content to be in the world like tulips in a garden, to make a fine show, and be good for nothing.

That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments.

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.

How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex?

Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it.

He who will be just, must be forc'd to acknowledge, that neither Sex are always in the right.

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