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

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

The two sexes mutually corrupt and improve each other.

At boarding schools of every description, the relaxation of the junior boys is mischief; and of the senior, vice.

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

Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense.

Society can only be happy and free in proportion as it is virtuous.