We cannot, without depraving our minds, endeavour to please a lover or husband, but in proportion as he pleases us.

When a man seduces a woman, it should, I think, be termed a left-handed marriage.

Women deluded by these sentiments, sometimes boast of their weakness, cunningly obtaining power by playing on the weakness of men; and they may well glory in their illicit sway, for, like Turkish bashaws, they have more real power than their masters: but virtue is sacrificed to temporary gratifications, and the respectability of life to the triumph of an hour.

For any kind of reading I think better than leaving a blank still a blank, because the mind must receive a degree of enlargement and obtain a little strength by a slight exertion of its thinking powers; besides, even the productions that are only addressed to the imagination, raise the reader a little above the gross gratification of appetites, to which the mind has not given a shade of delicacy.

But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!

Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world.

I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.