Complete self-devotion is woman's part.

A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.

Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever.

We must succumb to the general influence of the times. No man can be of the tenth century, if he would; be must be a man of the nineteenth century.

[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science.

Grief, which disposes gentle natures to retirement, to inaction, and to meditation, only makes restless spirits more restless.

The Church is the handmaid of tyranny and the steady enemy of liberty.