Happiness is in its highest degree the sister of goodness.

I leave a sad and bitter world; and if you remember me, and think of me as of one unjustly condemned, I am resigned to the fate awaiting me.

Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change. The sun might shine, or the clouds might lour: but nothing could appear to me as it had done the day before.

My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of reading.

Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety, will obtain for them the protection of man.

I am not a person of opinions because I feel the counter arguments too strongly.