If None Were To Marry, But Men

None Of God's Creatures Absolutely Consider'd Are In Their Own Nature Contemptible; The Meanest Fly, The Poorest Insect Has Its Use And Vertue.

Friendship Is A Virtue Which Comprehends All The Rest; None Being Fit For This, Who Is Not Adorned With Every Other Virtue.

Women Are From Their Very Infancy Debarred Those Advantages With The Want Of Which They Are Afterwards Reproached.

We Ought As Much As We Can To Endeavour The Perfecting Of Our Beings, And That We Be As Happy As Possibly We May.

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.