Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.

The conduct and manners of women, in fact, evidently prove that their minds are not in a healthy state; for, like the flowers which are planted in too rich a soil, strenght state; usefulness are sacrificed to beauty; and the flaunting leaves, after having pleased a fastidious eye, fade, disregarded on the stalk, long before the season when they ought to have arrived at maturity.

A modest man is steady, an humble man timid, and a vain one presumptuous.

It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.

A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind

The flexible muscles growing daily more rigid give character to the countenance ; that is, they trace the operations of the mind with the iron pen of fate, and tell us not only what powers are within, but how they have been employed.

Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.