Nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
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It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are, in some degree, independent of men ... Whilst they are absolutely dependent on their hus...
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Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's scepter, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
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Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
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Women ... are degraded by the ... propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient vir...
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Virtue can only flourish among equals.
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The beginning is always today.
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Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
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No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness.
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... to improve both sexes they ought, not only in private families, but in public schools, to be educated together. If marriage be the cement ...
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Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.
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Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.
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No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
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Of women I do not wish them to have power over men but over themselves.
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I do not wish [women] to have power over men, but over themselves.
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