"Ignorance is a frail base for virtue."

"My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable …"

"Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose—a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye."

"Men have been more anxious to make women alluring mistresses than affectionate wives and rational mothers."

"The desire of being always admired is the reason why women are so often useless."