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

In the education of women, the cultivation of the understanding is always subordinate to the acquirement of some corporeal accomplishment.

True happiness must arise from well-regulated affections, and an affection includes a duty.

It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.

Judicious books enlarge the mind and improve the heart.

A modest man is steady, an humble man timid, and a vain one presumptuous.

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