"The most perfect education, in my opinion, is such an exercise of the understanding as is best calculated to strengthen the body and form the heart. Or, in other words, to enable the individual to att…"

"Virtue can only flourish amongst equals."

"A woman who has been taught to think will always be a formidable opponent."

"Taught from their 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."

"I have ever found that the women who have most power over me are those who have the least ambition."