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.

Let woman share the rights and she will emulate the virtues of man; for she must grow more perfect when emancipated.

Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time. The very reverse may be said of love. In a great degree, love and friendship cannot subsist in the same bosom; even when inspired by different objects they weaken or destroy each other, and for the same object can only be felt in succession. The vain fears and fond jealousies, the winds which fan the flame of love, when judiciously or artfully tempered, are both incompatible with the tender confidence and sincere respect of friendship.

Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream.

In this metropolis a number of lurking leeches infamously gain subsistence by practicing on the credulity of women.

The endeavor to keep alive any hoary establishment beyond its natural date is often pernicious and always useless.

Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.