A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind.

A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind.

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

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

Now I am twenty-eight, and am in reality more illiterate than many schoolboys of fifteen. It is true that I have thought more, and that my day dreams are more extended and magnificent; but they want (as the painters call it) keeping; and I greatly need a friend who would have sense enough not to despise me as romantic, and affection enough for me to endeavour to regulate my mind.