For Certainly There Cannot Be A Higher

If Absolute Sovereignty Be Not Necessary In A State, How Comes It To Be So In A Family?

The Relation We Bear To The Wisdom Of The Father, The Son Of His Love, Gives Us Indeed A Dignity Which Otherwise We Have No Pretence To. It Makes Us Something, Something Considerable Even In God's Eyes.

If None Were To Marry, But Men Of Strict Vertue And Honour, I Doubt The World Would Be But Thinly Peopled.

For My Part I Think The Learned, And Unlearned Blockhead Pretty Equal; For 'tis All One To Me, Whether A Man Talk Nonsense, Or Unintelligible Sense, I Am Diverted And Edified Alike By Either; The One Enjoys Himself Less, But Suffers His Friends To Do It More; The Other Enjoys Himself And His Own Humour Enough, But Will Let No Body Else Do It In His Company.

A Husband Is Indeed Thought By Both Sexes So Very Valuable, That Scarce A Man Who Can Keep Himself Clean And Make A Bow, But Thinks He Is Good Enough To Pretend To Any Woman.