Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.

Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.

We cannot, without depraving our minds, endeavour to please a lover or husband, but in proportion as he pleases us.

Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.

Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices...rather than to root them out.

Modesty is the graceful, calm virtue of maturity; bashfulness the charm of vivacious youth.

The more equality there is established among men, the more virtue and happiness will reign in society.