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

The graceful ivy, clasping the oak that supported it, would form a whole in which strength and beauty would be equally conspicuous.

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

We cannot, without depraving our minds, endeavour to please a lover or husband, but in proportion as he pleases us.

It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that they were created rather to feel than reason, and that all the power they obtain must be obtained by their charms and weaknesses.

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

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.