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.

It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.

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

The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.

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

At boarding schools of every description, the relaxation of the junior boys is mischief; and of the senior, vice.

Love from its very nature must be transitory. To seek for a secret that would render it constant would be as wild a search as for the philosopher’s stone or the grand panacea: and the discovery would be equally useless, or rather pernicious to mankind. The most holy band of society is friendship.