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.

But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!

I think I love most people best when they are in adversity; for pity is one of my prevailing passions.

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

... we never do any thing well, unless we love it for its own sake.

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

Women becoming, consequently, weakerthan they ought to behave not sufficient strength to discharge the first duty of a mother; and sacrificing to lasciviousness the parental affectioneither destroy the embryo in the womb, or cast if off when born. Nature in every thing demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impunity.