When we feel deeply, we reason profoundly.

The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.

Women all want to be ladies, which is simply to have nothing to do, but listlessly to go they scarcely care where, for they cannot tell what.

Thinking it selfish to dwell on her own sufferings, when in the midst of wretches, who had not only lost all that endears life, but their very selves, her imagination was occupied with melancholy earnestness to trace the mazes of misery, through which so many wretches must have passed to this gloomy receptacle of disjointed souls, to the grand source of human corruption.

Age demands respect; youth, love.

When man, governed by reasonable laws, enjoys his natural freedom, let him despise woman, if she do not share it with him.

For years I have endeavored to calm an impetuous tide -- laboring to make my feelings take an orderly course -- it was striving against the stream.