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

The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.

Age demands respect; youth, love.

For any kind of reading I think better than leaving a blank still a blank, because the mind must receive a degree of enlargement and obtain a little strength by a slight exertion of its thinking powers; besides, even the productions that are only addressed to the imagination, raise the reader a little above the gross gratification of appetites, to which the mind has not given a shade of delicacy.

The graceful ivy, clasping the oak that supported it, would form a whole in which strength and beauty would be equally conspicuous.

The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.

How frequently has melancholy and even misanthropy taken possession of me, when the world has disgusted me, and friends have proven unkind. I have then considered myself as a particle broken off from the grand mass of mankind.