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

Let woman share the rights and she will emulate the virtues of man; for she must grow more perfect when emancipated.

Love from its very nature must be transitory. To seek for a secret that would render it constant would be as wild a search as for the philosopher’s stone or the grand panacea: and the discovery would be equally useless, or rather pernicious to mankind. The most holy band of society is friendship.

Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.

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.

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.

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