It is the preservation of the species, not of individuals, which appears to be the design of Deity throughout the whole of nature.

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.

How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?

Women all want to be ladies, which is simply to have nothing to do, but listlessly to go they scarcely care where, for they cannot tell what.

I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.

Modesty is the graceful, calm virtue of maturity; bashfulness the charm of vivacious youth.

In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.