No man chooses evil because it's evil. He only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

True happiness must arise from well-regulated affections, and an affection includes a duty.

Love, from its very nature, must be transitory.

...I scarcely am able to govern my muscles, when I see a man start with eager, and serious solicitude, to lift a handkerchief, orshut a door, when the lady could have done it herself, had she only moved a pace or two.

...men endeavor to sink us still lower, merely to render us alluring objects for a moment; and women, intoxicated by the adoration which men, under the influence of their senses, pay them, do not seek to obtain a durable interest in their hearts, or to become the friends of the fellow creatures who find amusement in their society.

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

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