1. “Flatter in courtship is the highest insolence for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to take from you what you really have.”
2. “I was condemned to be beheaded, or burnt, as the king pleased; and he was graciously pleased, from the great remains of his love, to choose the mildest sentence.”
3. “The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.”
4. “But in all things whether we shall make only a due use of liberties we have asked, is left entirely to the judicious reader to decide.”
5. “The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination.”
6. “Agreeable then to my present inclination, I formed the object of my own worship, which was no other than my own understanding.”
7. “On the wings of fancy, gentle readers, bear yourselves into the mid-air, where by imagination you may form a large stupendous castle.”
8. “Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives.”
9. “Their virtues lived in their children. The family changed its persons but not its manners, and they continued a blessing o the world from generation to generation.”
10. “If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgement of his own works, no less are they in his reader.”
