"The heart of man is not so much depraved by nature, as warped by custom."

"To be useful is more honorable than to be ornamental."

"False notions of beauty and delicacy stop the growth of the mind, and instead of just principles, fill the imagination with romantic stories."

"I perceive that the most respectable women are the most unhappy."

"The grand source of female folly and vice has ever appeared to me to arise from a mistaken estimate of sexual character."