From the respect paid to property flow, as from a poisoned fountain, most of the evils and vices which render this world such a dreary scene to the contemplative mind.

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.

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

Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.

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

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

Perhaps the seeds of false-refinement, immorality, and vanity, have ever been shed by the great. Weak, artificial beings, raised above the common wants and defections of their race, in a premature and unnatural manner, undermine the very foundation of virtue, and spread corruption through the whole mass of society!