To be a good mother, a woman must have sense, and that independence of mind which few women possess who are taught to depend entirely on their husbands. Meek wives are, in general, foolish mothers; wanting their children to love them best, and take their part, in secret, against the father, who is held up as a scarecrow.

Hereditary property sophisticates the mind, and the unfortunate victims to it ... swathed from their birth, seldom exert the locomotive faculty of body or mind; and, thus viewing every thing through one medium, and that a false one, they are unable to discern in what true merit and happiness consist.

Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave?

Fondness is a poor substitute for friendship.

The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.

When poverty is more disgraceful than even vice, is not morality cut to the quick?

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