Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.

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

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.

Life cannot be seen by an unmoved spectator.

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.

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.

It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.