Few, I believe, have had much affection for mankind, who did not first love their parents, their brothers, sisters, and even the domestic brutes, whom they first played with.

I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.

sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers

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.

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.

cold and inhumane society without solidarity.