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.
If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?
For certainly there cannot be a higher pleasure than to think that we love and are beloved by the most amiable and best Being.
Nor can the Apostle mean that Eve only sinned; or that she only was Deceived, for if Adam sinned willfully and knowingly, he became the greater Transgressor.
Why is Slavery so much condemn'd and strove against in one Case, and so highly applauded and held so necessary and so sacred in another?
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.
Certain I am, that Christian Religion does no where allow Rebellion.
How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex?
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.
Women are from their very infancy debarred those Advantages with the want of which they are afterwards reproached.
Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their Chains, and to discern how becomingly they fit.
That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments.
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.
The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we go down without taking notice on't.
To plead for the Oppress'd and to defend the Weak seem'd to me a generous undertaking; for tho' it may be secure, 'tis not always Honourable to run over to the strongest party.
'Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know, and stand upon their Value, be so insensible of their own worth.
We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can, and we need no Instructor to teach us this Knowledge, 'tis born with us, and is inseparable from our Being, but we very much need to be Inform'd what is the true Way to Happiness.
The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence.
The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters.
