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

Men neglect the duties incumbent on man, yet are treated like demi-gods; religion is also separated from morality by a ceremonial veil, yet men wonder that the world is almost, literally speaking, a den of sharpers or oppressors.

... we never do any thing well, unless we love it for its own sake.

Women all want to be ladies, which is simply to have nothing to do, but listlessly to go they scarcely care where, for they cannot tell what.

Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth.

Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.

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