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

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

The conduct of an accountable being must be regulated by the operations of its own reason.

My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.

When man, governed by reasonable laws, enjoys his natural freedom, let him despise woman, if she do not share it with him.

Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and, roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison. Men have various employments and pursuits which engage their attention, and give a character to the opening mind; but women, confined to one, and having their thoughts constantly directed to the most insignificant part of themselves, seldom extend their views beyond the triumph of the hour.

The beginning is always today.