Friendship and domestic happiness are continually praised; yet how little is there of either in the world, because it requires more cultivation of mind to keep awake affection, even in our own hearts, than the common run of people suppose.

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

People thinking for themselves have more energy in their voice, than any government, which it is possible for human wisdom to invent; and every government not aware of this sacred truth will, at some period, be suddenly overturned.

The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized.

The mind will ever be unstable that has only prejudices to rest on.

Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world.

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