At boarding schools of every description, the relaxation of the junior boys is mischief; and of the senior, vice.

It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in. 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. It may then fairly be inferred, that, till society be differently constituted, much cannot be expected from education.

The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized.

Make them free, and they will quickly become wise and virtous, as men become more so; for the improvement must be mutual, or the injustice which one half of the human race are obliged to submit to, retorting on their oppressors, the virtue of men will be worm-eaten by the insect whom he keeps under his feet

When man, governed by reasonable laws, enjoys his natural freedom, let him despise woman, if she do not share it with him.

Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense.