A modest man is steady, an humble man timid, and a vain one…

By this false politeness, sincerity is sacrificed, and truth violated; and thus artificial manners are necessarily taught. For true politeness is a polish, not a varnish; and should rather be acquired by observation than admonition.

It may be confidently asserted that no man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. And the desire of rectifying these mistakes, is the noble ambition of an enlightened understanding, the …

Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world; and this is not a woman's province in a married state. Her sphere of action is not large, and if she is not taught to look into her own …

Good habits, imperceptibly fixed, are far preferable to the precepts of reason

You know I am not born to tread in the beaten track — the peculiar bent of my nature pushes me on.

Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.