Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks.

Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks.

The two sexes mutually corrupt and improve each other.

The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.

True happiness must arise from well-regulated affections, and an affection includes a duty.

Good habits, imperceptibly fixed, are far preferable to the precepts of reason.

For any kind of reading I think better than leaving a blank still a blank, because the mind must receive a degree of enlargement and obtain a little strength by a slight exertion of its thinking powers; besides, even the productions that are only addressed to the imagination, raise the reader a little above the gross gratification of appetites, to which the mind has not given a shade of delicacy.