...trifling employments have rendered woman a trifler.

In the education of women, the cultivation of the understanding is always subordinate to the acquirement of some corporeal accomplishment.

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

Let us, my dear contemporaries, arise above such narrow prejudices. If wisdom be desirable on its own account, if virtue, to deserve the name, must be founded on knowledge, let us endeavour to strengthen our minds by reflection till our heads become a balance for our hearts.

I never wanted but your heart--that gone, you have nothing more to give.

Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world.

Women all want to be ladies, which is simply to have nothing to do, but listlessly to go they scarcely care where, for they cannot tell what.