We Must Think What We Say, And

The Design Of Rhetoric Is To Remove Those Prejudices That Lie In The Way Of Truth, To Reduce The Passions To The Government Of Reasons; To Place Our Subject In A Right Light, And Excite Our Hearers To A Due Consideration Of It.

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.

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.

Every Body Has So Good An Opinion Of Their Own Understanding As To Think Their Own Way The Best.

But, Alas! What Poor Woman Is Ever Taught That She Should Have A Higher Design Than To Get Her A Husband?