Friends Are Good,--good, If Well

As For Women That Do Not Think Their Own Safety Worth Their Thought, That Impatient Of Their Present State, Resolve As They Call It To Take The First Good Christian That Comes; That Runs Into Matrimony, As A Horse Rushes Into Battle; I Can Say Nothing To Them, But This, That They Are A Sort Of Ladies That Are To Be Pray'd For Among The Rest Of Distemper'd People; And To Me They Look Like People That Venture Their Whole Estates In A Lottery Where There Is A Hundred Thousand Blanks To One Prize.

He That Opposes His Own Judgment Against The Current Of The Times, Ought To Be Back'd With Unanswerable Truths; And He That Has That Truth On His Side, Is A Fool, As Well As A Coward, If He Is Afraid To Own It, Because Of The Currency Or Multitude Of Other Mens Opinions.

I Have Often Thought Of It As One Of The Most Barbarous Customs In The World, Considering Us As A Civilized And A Christian Country, That We Deny The Advantages Of Learning To Women.

For I Cannot Think That God Almighty Ever Made Them [women] So Delicate, So Glorious Creatures; And Furnished Them With Such Charms, So Agreeable And So Delightful To Mankind; With Souls Capable Of The Same Accomplishments With Men: And All, To Be Only Stewards Of Our Houses, Cooks, And Slaves.

All Men Would Be Tyrants If They Could.