Love, from its very nature, must be transitory.

Modesty is the graceful, calm virtue of maturity; bashfulness the charm of vivacious youth.

Men with common minds seldom break through general rules. Prudence is ever the resort of weakness; and they rarely go as far as as they may in any undertaking, who are determined not to go beyond it on any account.

Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.

Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.

Executions, far from being useful examples to the survivors, have, I am persuaded, a quite contrary effect, by hardening the heart they ought to terrify. Besides, the fear of an ignominious death, I believe, never deterred anyone from the commission of a crime, because in committing it the mind is roused to activity about present circumstances.

Let woman share the rights and she will emulate the virtues of man; for she must grow more perfect when emancipated.