Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.

My husband - my king.

When a man seduces a woman, it should, I think, be termed a left-handed marriage.

It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.

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

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

Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world.