I just don't feel good if I'm repeating myself.
If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?
. . . we never do any thing well, unless we love it for its own sake.
To improve both sexes they ought, not only in private families, but in public schools, to be educated together. If marriage be the cement of society, mankind should all be educated after the same model, or the intercourse of the sexes will never deserve the name of fellowship.
But women are very differently situated with respect to eachother - for they are all rivals (. . . ) Is it then surprising that when the sole ambition of woman centres in beauty, and interest gives vanity additional force, perpetual rivalships should ensue? They are all running the same race, and would rise above the virtue of morals, if they did not view each other with a suspicious and even envious eye.
When a man seduces a woman, it should, I think, be termed a left-handed marriage.
And this homage to women's attractions has distorted their understanding tosuch an extent that almost all the civilized women of the present century are anxious only to inspire love, when they ought to have the nobler aim of getting respect for their abilities and virtues.
I used to think the years would go by in order, that you get older one year at a time. But it's not like that. It happens overnight.
Remember: success does not lead to happiness - it's the other way around. Greater happiness is what leads to greater success.
Let man then contemplate the whole of nature in her full and grand majesty. . . No idea approaches it. We may enlarge our conceptions beyond all imaginable space; we only produce atoms in comparison with the reality of things. It is an infinite sphere, the center of which is everywhere, the circumference nowhere.
Those periods of struggling to overcome challenges are what people find to be the most enjoyable times.