The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.

To be a good mother, a woman must have sense, and that independence of mind which few women possess who are taught to depend entirely on their husbands. Meek wives are, in general, foolish mothers; wanting their children to love them best, and take their part, in secret, against the father, who is held up as a scarecrow.

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

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

Men with common minds seldom break through general rules. Prudence is ever the resort of weakness; and they rarely go as far as as they may in any undertaking, who are determined not to go beyond it on any account.

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

It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.