These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.

How prone we are to come to the consideration of every question with heads and hearts pre-occupied! How prone to shrink from any opinion, however reasonable, if it be opposed to any, however unreasonable, of our own! How disposed are we to judge, in anger, those who call upon us to think, and encourage us to enquire! To question our prejudices seems nothing less than sacrilege; to break the chains of our ignorance, nothing short of impiety!

I am neither Jew nor Gentile, Mahomedan nor Theist; I am but a member of the human family.

... the happiness of a people is the only rational object of government, and the only object for which a people, free to choose, can have a government at all.

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

There is a vulgar persuasion, that the ignorance of women, by favoring their subordination, ensures their utility. 'Tis the same argument employed by the ruling few against the subject many in aristocracies; by the rich against the poor in democracies; by the learned professions against the people in all countries.

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.