Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave?

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

How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?

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

From the respect paid to property flow, as from a poisoned fountain, most of the evils and vices which render this world such a dreary scene to the contemplative mind.

Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks.

Thinking it selfish to dwell on her own sufferings, when in the midst of wretches, who had not only lost all that endears life, but their very selves, her imagination was occupied with melancholy earnestness to trace the mazes of misery, through which so many wretches must have passed to this gloomy receptacle of disjointed souls, to the grand source of human corruption.