The mind will ever be unstable that has only prejudices to rest on.

It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.

The two sexes mutually corrupt and improve each other.

Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks.

Judicious books enlarge the mind and improve the heart.

To improve both sexes they ought, not only in private families, but in public schools, to be educated together. If marriage be the cement of society, mankind should all be educated after the same model, or the intercourse of the sexes will never deserve the name of fellowship.

...I scarcely am able to govern my muscles, when I see a man start with eager, and serious solicitude, to lift a handkerchief, orshut a door, when the lady could have done it herself, had she only moved a pace or two.