I think schools, as they are now regulated, the hot-beds of vice and folly, and the knowledge of human nature supposedly attained there, merely cunning selfishness.

Virtue can only flourish among equals.

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

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?

Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks.

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