Every Body Has So Good An Opinion

Ignorance And A Narrow Education Lay The Foundation Of Vice, And Imitation And Custom Rear It Up.

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.

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 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.

Although It Has Been Said By Men Of More Wit Than Wisdom, And Perhaps More Malice Than Either, That Women Are Naturally Incapable Of Acting Prudently, Or That They Are Necessarily Determined To Folly, I Must By No Means Grant It.