“Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best.”
Tip: press → for another quote, C to copy, S to share.
How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex?
Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.
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.
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.