Modesty is the graceful, calm virtue of maturity; bashfulness the charm of vivacious youth.

Good habits, imperceptibly fixed, are far preferable to the precepts of reason.

Judicious books enlarge the mind and improve the heart.

It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that they were created rather to feel than reason, and that all the power they obtain must be obtained by their charms and weaknesses.

The two sexes mutually corrupt and improve each other.

The flexible muscles growing daily more rigid give character to the countenance ; that is, they trace the operations of the mind with the iron pen of fate, and tell us not only what powers are within, but how they have been employed.

The power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions from individual observations, is the only acquirement, for an immortal being, that really deserves the name of knowledge.