The two sexes mutually corrupt and improve each other.

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

An immoderate fondness for dress, for pleasure, and for sway, are the passions of savages; the passions that occupy those uncivilized beings who have not yet extended the dominion of the mind, or even learned to think with the energy necessary to concatenate that abstract train of thought which produces principles.... that women from their education and the present state of civilized life, are in the same condition, cannotbe controverted.

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

People thinking for themselves have more energy in their voice, than any government, which it is possible for human wisdom to invent; and every government not aware of this sacred truth will, at some period, be suddenly overturned.

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

Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks.