In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.

Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.

People thinking for themselves have more energy in their voice, than any government, which it is possible for human wisdom to invent; and every government not aware of this sacred truth will, at some period, be suddenly overturned.

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

... the whole tenour of female education ... tends to render the best disposed romantic and inconstant; and the remainder vain and mean.

Judicious books enlarge the mind and improve the heart.

[I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neither been the most beautiful nor the most gentle of their sex.