Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties.
I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'
But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.
The natural tenderness and delicacy of our constitution, added to the many dangers we are subject to from your sex, renders it almost impossible for a single lady to travel without injury to her chara...
If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women. The world perhaps would laugh at me, and accuse me of vanity, but you I know have a mind too enlarged and liberal t...