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

True happiness must arise from well-regulated affections, and an affection includes a duty.

As a sex, women are habitually indolent; and every thing tends to make them so.

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

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

The endeavor to keep alive any hoary establishment beyond its natural date is often pernicious and always useless.

In this metropolis a number of lurking leeches infamously gain subsistence by practicing on the credulity of women.