A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world. Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
Great necessities call out great virtues.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues. Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken . . .