The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.

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

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.

The mind will ever be unstable that has only prejudices to rest on.

Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time.

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

Men with common minds seldom break through general rules. Prudence is ever the resort of weakness; and they rarely go as far as as they may in any undertaking, who are determined not to go beyond it on any account.