 We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can, and we need no Instructor to teach us this Knowledge, 'tis born with us, and is inseparable from our Being, but we very much need to be Inform'd what is the true Way to Happiness. |
| 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. |
| Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up. Topics: Education |
| Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best. |
| 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. |
| Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail. |
| We ought as much as we can to endeavour the Perfecting of our Beings, and that we be as happy as possibly we may. |
| Nor can the Apostle mean that Eve only sinned; or that she only was Deceived, for if Adam sinned willfully and knowingly, he became the greater Transgressor. |
| Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it. |
| But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband? |
| 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. |
| 'Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know, and stand upon their Value, be so insensible of their own worth. |
| The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence. |
| For certainly there cannot be a higher pleasure than to think that we love and are beloved by the most amiable and best Being. |
| 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. |
| Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom. |
| Marry for Love, an Heroick Action, which makes a mighty noise in the World, partly because of its rarity, and partly in regard of its extravagancy. |
| That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments. |
| Why is Slavery so much condemn'd and strove against in one Case, and so highly applauded and held so necessary and so sacred in another? |
| The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we go down without taking notice on't. |
