Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time.

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in. In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century. It may then fairly be inferred, that, till society be differently constituted, much cannot be expected from education.

Women do not want power over men, they want power over themselves.

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.

How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?

The flexible muscles growing daily more rigid give character to the countenance ; that is, they trace the operations of the mind with the iron pen of fate, and tell us not only what powers are within, but how they have been employed.

Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave?