Wit Is The Fruitful Womb Where Thoughts

The Soul Is Placed In The Body Like A Rough Diamond, And Must Be Polished, Or The Luster Of It Will Never Appear.

For I Cannot Think That God Almighty Ever Made Them [women] So Delicate, So Glorious Creatures; And Furnished Them With Such Charms, So Agreeable And So Delightful To Mankind; With Souls Capable Of The Same Accomplishments With Men: And All, To Be Only Stewards Of Our Houses, Cooks, And Slaves.

He Look'd A Little Disorder'd, When He Said This, But I Did Not Apprehend Any Thing From It At That Time, Believing As It Us'd To Be Said, That They Who Do Those Things Never Talk Of Them; Or That They Who Talk Of Such Things Never Do Them.

Why Then Should Women Be Denied The Benefits Of Instruction? If Knowledge And Understanding Had Been Useless Additions To The Sex, God Almighty Would Never Have Given Them Capacities.

Fear Of Danger Is Ten Thousand Times More Terrifying Than Danger Itself.