Let woman share the rights and she will emulate the virtues of man; for she must grow more perfect when emancipated.

The endeavor to keep alive any hoary establishment beyond its natural date is often pernicious and always useless.

In this metropolis a number of lurking leeches infamously gain subsistence by practicing on the credulity of women.

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.

... we never do any thing well, unless we love it for its own sake.

Age demands respect; youth, love.

...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.