Fondness is a poor substitute for friendship.

When a man seduces a woman, it should, I think, be termed a left-handed marriage.

Love, from its very nature, must be transitory.

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in. 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. It may then fairly be inferred, that, till society be differently constituted, much cannot be expected from education.

The endeavor to keep alive any hoary establishment beyond its natural date is often pernicious and always useless.

I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.

...men endeavor to sink us still lower, merely to render us alluring objects for a moment; and women, intoxicated by the adoration which men, under the influence of their senses, pay them, do not seek to obtain a durable interest in their hearts, or to become the friends of the fellow creatures who find amusement in their society.