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

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

...trifling employments have rendered woman a trifler.

I never wanted but your heart--that gone, you have nothing more to give.

I must be allowed to add some explanatory remarks to bring the subject home to reason-to that sluggish reason, which supinely takes opinions on trust, and obstinately supports them to spare itself the labour of thinking.

Society can only be happy and free in proportion as it is virtuous.

To be a good mother, a woman must have sense, and that independence of mind which few women possess who are taught to depend entirely on their husbands. Meek wives are, in general, foolish mothers; wanting their children to love them best, and take their part, in secret, against the father, who is held up as a scarecrow.