My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.

It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should be only organized dust.

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

The beginning is always today.

At boarding schools of every description, the relaxation of the junior boys is mischief; and of the senior, vice.

The absurd duty, too often inculcated, of obeying a parent only on account of his being a parent, shackles the mind, and prepares it for a slavish submission to any power but reason.

The graceful ivy, clasping the oak that supported it, would form a whole in which strength and beauty would be equally conspicuous.