The two sexes mutually corrupt and improve each other.

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

No man chooses evil because it's evil. He only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

I think I love most people best when they are in adversity; for pity is one of my prevailing passions.

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.

Society can only be happy and free in proportion as it is virtuous.

Let not men then in the pride of power, use the same arguments that tyrannic kings and venal ministers have used, and fallaciously assert that women ought to be subjected because she has always been so.... It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity.... It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.