Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.

It is the preservation of the species, not of individuals, which appears to be the design of Deity throughout the whole of nature.

Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.

Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time. The very reverse may be said of love. In a great degree, love and friendship cannot subsist in the same bosom; even when inspired by different objects they weaken or destroy each other, and for the same object can only be felt in succession. The vain fears and fond jealousies, the winds which fan the flame of love, when judiciously or artfully tempered, are both incompatible with the tender confidence and sincere respect of friendship.

When man, governed by reasonable laws, enjoys his natural freedom, let him despise woman, if she do not share it with him.

In this metropolis a number of lurking leeches infamously gain subsistence by practicing on the credulity of women.

In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.