God has placed the genius of women in their hearts, because the works of this genius are always works of love.

...to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Eternity is so certain and so terrible that a thousand lives would not suffice to prepare for it.

Women have much more heart and much more imagination than men; hence, fancy often allures them.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth.

We cannot have two hearts, one for the animals and one for men. In cruelty towards the former and cruelty to the latter there is no difference but in the victim.