The Span Of Life Is Too Short

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.

Ignorance And A Narrow Education Lay The Foundation Of Vice, And Imitation And Custom Rear It Up.

A Woman Indeed Can't Properly Be Said To Choose, All That Is Allowed Her, Is To Refuse Or Accept What Is Offered.

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.