"To be independent of public opinion, is the first step towards dignity."

"Men have been more anxious to make women alluring mistresses than affectionate wives and rational mothers."

"The great art of pleasing is to appear pleased."

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

"I am a strange compound of weakness and resolution! All my feelings are on the tortured rack; but I will not be a fool, if I can help it."