I never wanted but your heart--that gone, you have nothing more to give.

Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.

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.

When we feel deeply, we reason profoundly.

Society can only be happy and free in proportion as it is virtuous.

The two sexes mutually corrupt and improve each other.

...trifling employments have rendered woman a trifler.