... your spiritual teachers caution you against enquiry--tell you not to read certain books; not to listen to certain people; to beware of profane learning; to submit your reason, and to receive their doctrines for truths. Such advice renders them suspicious counsellors.

The knowledge of one generation is the ignorance of the next.

Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.

The condition of women affords in all countries the best criterion by which to judge the character of men.

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.

Of the thousands who have paid homage to virtue, barely one has thought to inspect the pedestal on which it stands.

Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.