However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to them, human improvement must advance but feebly.

Equality! Where is it, if not in education? Equal rights! They cannot exist without equality of instruction.

Do not confound noise with fame. The man who is remembered, is not always honored.

The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.

We have ... dreamed so much and observed so little, that our imaginations have grown larger than the world we live in, and our judgments have dwindled down to a point.

No man can see his own prejudices.

The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.