The Motives To Actions And The Inward

[f]or Women, Like Tradesmen, Draw In The Injudicious To Buy Their Goods By The High Value They Themselves Set Upon Them.... They Endeavor Strongly To Fix In The Minds Of Their Enamoratos Their Own High Value, And Then Contrive As Much As Possible To Make Them Believe That They Have So Many Purchasers At Hand That The Goods--if They Do Not Make Haste--will All Be Gone.

[allegory] Is A Flight By Which The Human Wit Attempts At One And The Same Time To Investigate Two Objects, And Consequently Is Fitted Only To The Most Exalted Geniuses.

I Am None Of Those Nonsensical Fools That Can Whine And Make Romantic Love--i Leave That To Younger Brothers. Let My Estate Speakfor Me.

On The Wings Of Fancy, Gentle Readers, Bear Yourselves Into The Mid-air, Where By Imagination You May Form A Large Stupendous Castle.

Thoroughly To Unfold The Labyrinths Of The Human Mind Is An Arduous Task.... In Order To Dive Into Those Recesses And Lay Them Open To The Reader In A Striking And Intelligible Manner, 'tis Necessary To Assume A Certain Freedom In Writing, Not Strictly Perhaps Within The Limits Prescribed By Rules.