Some women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern.

When a man seduces a woman, it should, I think, be termed a left-handed marriage.

At school boys become gluttons and slovens, and, instead of cultivating domestic affections, very early rush into the libertinism which destroys the constitution before it is formed; hardening the heart as it weakens the understanding.

From the respect paid to property flow, as from a poisoned fountain, most of the evils and vices which render this world such a dreary scene to the contemplative mind.

I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.