The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.

Judicious books enlarge the mind and improve the heart.

At boarding schools of every description, the relaxation of the junior boys is mischief; and of the senior, vice.

I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.

I must be allowed to add some explanatory remarks to bring the subject home to reason-to that sluggish reason, which supinely takes opinions on trust, and obstinately supports them to spare itself the labour of thinking.

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.

In the education of women, the cultivation of the understanding is always subordinate to the acquirement of some corporeal accomplishment.