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My husband - my king.
The beginning is always today.
Age demands respect; youth, love.
Virtue can only flourish among equals.
We reason deeply, when we forcibly feel.
When we feel deeply, we reason profoundly.
Life cannot be seen by an unmoved spectator.
Fondness is a poor substitute for friendship.
The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.
Love, from its very nature, must be transitory.
...trifling employments have rendered woman a trifler.
The two sexes mutually corrupt and improve each other.
Judicious books enlarge the mind and improve the heart.
It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.
A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind
... wealth and female softness equally tend to debase mankind!
I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.
Women do not want power over men, they want power over themselves.
... we never do any thing well, unless we love it for its own sake.
Society can only be happy and free in proportion as it is virtuous.
The mind will ever be unstable that has only prejudices to rest on.
Situation seems to be the mould in which men's characters are formed.
Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.
I never wanted but your heart--that gone, you have nothing more to give.
A modest man is steady, an humble man timid, and a vain one presumptuous.
But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!
Good habits, imperceptibly fixed, are far preferable to the precepts of reason.
As a sex, women are habitually indolent; and every thing tends to make them so.
When a man seduces a woman, it should, I think, be termed a left-handed marriage.
When poverty is more disgraceful than even vice, is not morality cut to the quick?
Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave?
It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.
Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth.
The conduct of an accountable being must be regulated by the operations of its own reason.
Modesty is the graceful, calm virtue of maturity; bashfulness the charm of vivacious youth.
True happiness must arise from well-regulated affections, and an affection includes a duty.
How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?
No man chooses evil because it's evil. He only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.
Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream.
You know I am not born to tread in the beaten track the peculiar bent of my nature pushes me on.
Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices...rather than to root them out.
Some women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern.
I think I love most people best when they are in adversity; for pity is one of my prevailing passions.
The more equality there is established among men, the more virtue and happiness will reign in society.
Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world.
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
At boarding schools of every description, the relaxation of the junior boys is mischief; and of the senior, vice.