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

It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should only be organised dust - ready to fly abroad the moment the spring snaps, or the spark goes out, which kept it together. Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream.

I think I love most people best when they are in adversity; for pity is one of my prevailing passions.

How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?

Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices...rather than to root them out.

Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world.

Men neglect the duties incumbent on man, yet are treated like demi-gods; religion is also separated from morality by a ceremonial veil, yet men wonder that the world is almost, literally speaking, a den of sharpers or oppressors.