The flexible muscles growing daily more rigid give character to the countenance ; that is, they trace the operations of the mind with the iron pen of fate, and tell us not only what powers are within, but how they have been employed.

I think I love most people best when they are in adversity; for pity is one of my prevailing passions.

... wealth and female softness equally tend to debase mankind!

When we feel deeply, we reason profoundly.

If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?

What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave his perishable substance to save himself from the dark torments of purgatory.

It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.