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 conduct of an accountable being must be regulated by the operations of its own reason.

The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.

... wealth and female softness equally tend to debase mankind!

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.

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.

I think schools, as they are now regulated, the hot-beds of vice and folly, and the knowledge of human nature supposedly attained there, merely cunning selfishness.