At school boys become gluttons and slovens, and, instead of cultivating domestic affections, very early rush into the libertinism which destroys the constitution before it is formed; hardening the heart as it weakens the understanding.

And this homage to women's attractions has distorted their understanding tosuch an extent that almost all the civilized women of the present century are anxious only to inspire love, when they ought to have the nobler aim of getting respect for their abilities and virtues.

My husband - my king.

The beginning is always today.

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

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

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