Moral truth, resting entirely upon the ascertained consequences of actions, supposes a process of observation and reasoning.

Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.

However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to them, human improvement must advance but feebly.

the language of truth is too simple for inexperienced ears.

No man can see his own prejudices.

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.

I am neither Jew nor Gentile, Mohammedan nor Theist; I am but a member of the human family, and would accept of truth by whomsoever offered -- that truth which we can all find, if we will but seek in things, not in words; in nature, not in human imagination; in our own hearts, not in temples made with hands.