"Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience, and a scrupulous…"

"I am not a creature of impulse, but of deliberation."

"No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks."

"Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose—a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye."

"It is the preservation of the species, not of individuals, which appears to be the design of Deity throughout the whole of nature."