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.

Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave?

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

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.

Let not men then in the pride of power, use the same arguments that tyrannic kings and venal ministers have used, and fallaciously assert that women ought to be subjected because she has always been so.... It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity.... It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.

A war, or any wild-goose chase, is, as the vulgar use the phrase, a lucky turn-up of patronage for the minister, whose chief merit is the art of keeping himself in place.

We cannot, without depraving our minds, endeavour to please a lover or husband, but in proportion as he pleases us.