If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.

Love, from its very nature, must be transitory.

I think schools, as they are now regulated, the hot-beds of vice and folly, and the knowledge of human nature supposedly attained there, merely cunning selfishness.

A modest man is steady, an humble man timid, and a vain one presumptuous.

It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that they were created rather to feel than reason, and that all the power they obtain must be obtained by their charms and weaknesses.

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

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