All women are brought up from the very earliest years in the belief that their ideal of character is the very opposite to that of men; not self-will, and government by self-control, but submission and yielding to the control of others. All the moralities tell them that it is their nature to live for others; to make complete abnegation of themselves, and to have no life but in their affections.

Education makes a man a more intelligent shoemaker, if that be his occupation, but not by teaching him how to make shoes; it does so by the mental exercise it gives, and the habits it impresses.

Education is one of the subjects which most essentially require to be considered by various minds, and from a variety of points of view. For, of all many-sided subjects, it is the one which has the greatest number of sides.

Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.

What is contrary to women's nature to do, they never will be made to do by simply giving their nature free play.

A person's taste is as much his own peculiar concern as his opinion or his purse.