The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized.

Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.

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

My husband - my king.

A war, or any wild-goose chase, is, as the vulgar use the phrase, a lucky turn-up of patronage for the minister, whose chief merit is the art of keeping himself in place.

And this homage to women's attractions has distorted their understanding tosuch an extent that almost all the civilized women of the present century are anxious only to inspire love, when they ought to have the nobler aim of getting respect for their abilities and virtues.

... wealth and female softness equally tend to debase mankind!