As a sex, women are habitually indolent; and every thing tends to make them so.

Let us, my dear contemporaries, arise above such narrow prejudices. If wisdom be desirable on its own account, if virtue, to deserve the name, must be founded on knowledge, let us endeavour to strengthen our minds by reflection till our heads become a balance for our hearts.

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

Modesty is the graceful, calm virtue of maturity; bashfulness the charm of vivacious youth.

Good habits, imperceptibly fixed, are far preferable to the precepts of reason.

How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?

Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time.