The Loss Of Liberty Which Must Attend

[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.

I Believe No Gentleman Would Like To Have His Family Affairs Neglected Because His Wife Was Filling Her Head With Crotchets And Pothooks, And Who, Because She Understood A Few Scraps Of Latin, Valued That More Than Minding Her Needle Or Providing Her Husband's Dinner.

I Was Amongst The Virtues Like The Great Turk In His Seraglio Of Women, And I Chose To Dwell With That Virtue Which Looked The Fairest In My Eyes And Gave Me At That Season Most Pleasure. In Short, I Made Wives Of Them: I First Admired Them, Then Made Them My Own Property, And If They Would Not Submit To My Will, I Again Turned Them Off And Divorced Them.

If Modesty And Candor Are Necessary To An Author In His Judgment Of His Own Works, No Less Are They In His Reader.

Flattery In Courtship Is The Highest Insolence, For Whilst It Pretends To Bestow On You More Than You Deserve, It Is Watching An Opportunity To Take From You What You Really Have.