Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.

The most perfect education ... is such an exercise of the understanding as is best calculated to strengthen the body and form the heart. Or, in other words, to enable the individual to attain such habits of virtue as will render it independent.

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

A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse

Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.

Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices...rather than to root them out.

It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should only be organised dust - ready to fly abroad the moment the spring snaps, or the spark goes out, which kept it together. Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream.