In short, he sees nothing, but by an image prepared and designed beforehand and the most satisfactory they can invent, not to rouse and awaken his ill humour and choler.

I have seen, under various aspects, enough of these modes of domestic government, long-enduring, constant, to the like effect.
Women are evermore addicted to cross their husbands: they lay hold with both hands on all occasions to contradict and oppose them; the first excuse serves for a plenary justification.

I have seen one who robbed her husband wholesale, that, as she told her confessor, she might distribute the more liberal alms.

Let who will trust to that religious dispensation.

No management of affairs seems to them of sufficient dignity, if proceeding from the husband's assent; they must usurp it either by insolence or cunning, and always injuriously, or else it has not the grace and authority they desire.