My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.

Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power, the parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.

I acknowledge myself a unitarian

The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.

The only chance for much intellectual improvement in the female sex, was to be found in the families of the educated class and in occasional intercourse with the learned.

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'

History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active.