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

But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!

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

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.

In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.

Good habits, imperceptibly fixed, are far preferable to the precepts of reason.