The priests are debarred from female society, nor is any woman permitted to enter the religious houses.
An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.
The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.
Women are from their very infancy debarred those Advantages with the want of which they are afterwards reproached.