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

Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.

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

Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time.

And this homage to women's attractions has distorted their understanding tosuch an extent that almost all the civilized women of the present century are anxious only to inspire love, when they ought to have the nobler aim of getting respect for their abilities and virtues.

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

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