... wealth and female softness equally tend to debase mankind!
Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth.
It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.
[I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neither been the most beautiful nor the most gentle of their sex.
The two sexes mutually corrupt and improve each other.
Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.