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

I begin to love this little creature, and to anticipate his birth as a fresh twist to a knot, which I do not wish to untie.

Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream.

Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time.

Modesty is the graceful, calm virtue of maturity; bashfulness the charm of vivacious youth.

Let not men then in the pride of power, use the same arguments that tyrannic kings and venal ministers have used, and fallaciously assert that women ought to be subjected because she has always been so.... It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity.... It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.

...I scarcely am able to govern my muscles, when I see a man start with eager, and serious solicitude, to lift a handkerchief, orshut a door, when the lady could have done it herself, had she only moved a pace or two.