In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.

In the education of women, the cultivation of the understanding is always subordinate to the acquirement of some corporeal accomplishment.

Hereditary property sophisticates the mind, and the unfortunate victims to it ... swathed from their birth, seldom exert the locomotive faculty of body or mind; and, thus viewing every thing through one medium, and that a false one, they are unable to discern in what true merit and happiness consist.

The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.

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

The mind will ever be unstable that has only prejudices to rest on, and the current will run with destructive fury when there are no barriers to break its force.

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.