'Why really I must own, I know no Whig or Tory in vice; the vicious and the virtuous are the only two parties I have to do with; if a vicious, lewd, debauched magistrate happened to be a Whig, what then? let him mend his manners, and he may be a Whig still, and if not, the rest ought to be ashamed of him.

All writers, poets, and satirists alike speak of the inferiority of women to men,not physically only, but even intellectually; and some authors made them more vicious than men in natural inclination.

It is, in their eyes, as impious to beat a slave as to beat a parent: because, as they say, "nothing can be more virtuous than virtue,nothing more vicious than vice".