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

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.

It is the preservation of the species, not of individuals, which appears to be the design of Deity throughout the whole of nature.

Perhaps the seeds of false-refinement, immorality, and vanity, have ever been shed by the great. Weak, artificial beings, raised above the common wants and defections of their race, in a premature and unnatural manner, undermine the very foundation of virtue, and spread corruption through the whole mass of society!

But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!

The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized.

The graceful ivy, clasping the oak that supported it, would form a whole in which strength and beauty would be equally conspicuous.