Women Are From Their Very Infancy Debarred

Unhappy Is That Grandeur Which Makes Us Too Great To Be Good; And That Wit Which Sets Us At A Distance From True Wisdom.

Fetters Of Gold Are Still Fetters, And The Softest Lining Can Never Make Them So Easy As Liberty.

Every One Knows, That The Mind Will Not Be Kept From Contemplating What It Loves In The Midst Of Crowds And Business. Hence Come Those Frequent Absences, So Observable In Conversation; For Whilst The Body Is Confined To Present Company, The Mind Is Flown To That Which It Delights In.

Women Are From Their Very Infancy Debarred Those Advantages With The Want Of Which They Are Aftewards Reproached, And Nursed Up In Those Vices Which Will Hereafter Be Upbraided To Them. So Partial Are Men As To Expect Bricks When They Afford No Straw.

To All The Rest Of His Absurdities, (for Vice Is Always Unreasonable,) He Adds One More, Who Expects That Vertue From Another Which He Won't Practise Himself.