How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?

In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.

A modest man is steady, an humble man timid, and a vain one presumptuous.

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

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

I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.

Women all want to be ladies, which is simply to have nothing to do, but listlessly to go they scarcely care where, for they cannot tell what.