In this metropolis a number of lurking leeches infamously gain subsistence by practicing on the credulity of women.

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.

Let us, my dear contemporaries, arise above such narrow prejudices. If wisdom be desirable on its own account, if virtue, to deserve the name, must be founded on knowledge, let us endeavour to strengthen our minds by reflection till our heads become a balance for our hearts.

Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices...rather than to root them out.

Fondness is a poor substitute for friendship.

The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.

... the whole tenour of female education ... tends to render the best disposed romantic and inconstant; and the remainder vain and mean.