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.

When we feel deeply, we reason profoundly.

The conduct of an accountable being must be regulated by the operations of its own reason.

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

Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.

Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time.

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