Fetters Of Gold Are Still

The Span Of Life Is Too Short To Be Trifled Away In Unconcerning And Unprofitable Matters.

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.

How Can A Man Respect His Wife When He Has A Contemptible Opinion Of Her And Her Sex?

We May Not Commit A Lesser Sin Under Pretence To Avoid A Greater, But We May, Nay We Ought To Endure The Greatest Pain And Grief Rather Than Commit The Least Sin.

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.