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

"Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; – that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers."

"Many are the causes that conspire to render women more dependent than men; and one, not the least, is the false system of education, which is adopted for their sex."

"I have ever found that the women who have most power over me are those who have the least ambition."

"I have a soul that is too proud to stoop to any meanness."