Agreeable Then To My Present Inclination, I

[f]or As Socrates Says That A Wise Man Is A Citizen Of The World, So I Thought That A Wise Woman Was Equally At Liberty To Range Through Every Station Or Degree Of Men, To Fix Her Choice Wherever She Pleased.

The Loss Of Liberty Which Must Attend Being A Wife Was Of All Things The Most Horrible To My Imagination.

[f]or Women, Like Tradesmen, Draw In The Injudicious To Buy Their Goods By The High Value They Themselves Set Upon Them.... They Endeavor Strongly To Fix In The Minds Of Their Enamoratos Their Own High Value, And Then Contrive As Much As Possible To Make Them Believe That They Have So Many Purchasers At Hand That The Goods--if They Do Not Make Haste--will All Be Gone.

The Motives To Actions And The Inward Turns Of Mind Seem In Our Opinion More Necessary To Be Known Than The Actions Themselves; And Much Rather Would We Choose That Our Reader Should Clearly Understand What Our Principal Actors Think Than What They Do.

I Was Condemned To Be Beheaded, Or Burnt, As The King Pleased; And He Was Graciously Pleased, From The Great Remains Of His Love, To Choose The Mildest Sentence.