Let us, my dear contemporaries, arise above such narrow prejudices. If wisdom be desirable on its own account, if virtue, to deserve the name, must be founded on knowledge, let us endeavour to strengthen our minds by reflection till our heads become a balance for our hearts.

Love from its very nature must be transitory. To seek for a secret that would render it constant would be as wild a search as for the philosopher’s stone or the grand panacea: and the discovery would be equally useless, or rather pernicious to mankind. The most holy band of society is friendship.

... the whole tenour of female education ... tends to render the best disposed romantic and inconstant; and the remainder vain and mean.

When man, governed by reasonable laws, enjoys his natural freedom, let him despise woman, if she do not share it with him.

I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.

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

The beginning is always today.