True happiness must arise from well-regulated affections, and an affection includes a duty.

Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth.

Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense.

Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.

Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks.

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.

Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time. The very reverse may be said of love. In a great degree, love and friendship cannot subsist in the same bosom; even when inspired by different objects they weaken or destroy each other, and for the same object can only be felt in succession. The vain fears and fond jealousies, the winds which fan the flame of love, when judiciously or artfully tempered, are both incompatible with the tender confidence and sincere respect of friendship.