A modest man is steady, an humble man timid, and a vain one presumptuous.
Society can only be happy and free in proportion as it is virtuous.
When a man seduces a woman, it should, I think, be termed a left-handed marriage.
It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.
Good habits, imperceptibly fixed, are far preferable to the precepts of reason.
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.