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

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

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.

The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence.

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.

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.