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.

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

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.

The more equality there is established among men, the more virtue and happiness will reign in society.

Men with common minds seldom break through general rules. Prudence is ever the resort of weakness; and they rarely go as far as as they may in any undertaking, who are determined not to go beyond it on any account.

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.