Persecution for opinion is the master vice of society.

Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period.

... so far from entrenching human conduct within the gentle barriers of peace and love, religion has ever been, and now is, the deepest source of contentions, wars, persecutions for conscience sake, angry words, angry feelings, backbitings, slanders, suspicions, false judgments, evil interpretations, unwise, unjust, injurious, inconsistent actions.

Credulity is always ridiculous.

You have heard of, and studied various systems of philosophy; but real philosophy is opposed to all systems.

It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential. If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance. Let women stand where they may in the scale of improvement, their position decides that of the race.

I shall say, that I feel myself virtuous, because my soul is at rest.