“From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.”
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There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.
If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.
O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!
Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.