So precious a talent as intellect never was given to be wrapt in a napkin and buried in the earth.

So precious a talent as intellect never was given to be wrapt in a napkin and buried in the earth.

The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism.

Human beings have rights, because they are moral beings: the rights of all men grow out of their moral nature; and as all men have the same moral nature, they have the same rights.

I have not placed reading before praying because I regard it more important, but because, in order to pray aright, we must understand what we are praying for.

We are commanded to love God with all our minds, as well as with all our hearts, and we commit a great sin if we forbid or prevent that cultivation of the mind in others which would enable them to perform this duty.

Our fathers waged a bloody conflict with England, because they were taxed without being represented. This is just what unmarried women of property are now.