Women becoming, consequently, weakerthan they ought to behave not sufficient strength to discharge the first duty of a mother; and sacrificing to lasciviousness the parental affectioneither destroy the embryo in the womb, or cast if off when born. Nature in every thing demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impunity.

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

The highest branch of solitary amusement is reading; but even in the choice of books the fancy is first employed; for in reading, the heart is touched, till its feelings are examined by the understanding, and the ripening of reason regulate the imagination. This is the work of years, and the most important of all employments.

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

At boarding schools of every description, the relaxation of the junior boys is mischief; and of the senior, vice.

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.

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