I begin to love this little creature, and to anticipate his birth as a fresh twist to a knot, which I do not wish to untie.

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

Some women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern.

It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that they were created rather to feel than reason, and that all the power they obtain must be obtained by their charms and weaknesses.

The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.

Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.

The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.