Women are only children of a larger growth. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humours and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.

妇女只是发育较大的孩子。一个有理智的人只会和他们一起玩闹，逗他们开心，奉承他们，就像他对待一个活泼好动的孩子一样;但他既不向他们请教，也不把严肃的事情托付给他们。