the mode of delivering a truth makes, for the most part, as much impression on the mind of the listener as the truth itself.

What were the glories of the sun, if we knew not the gloom of darkness?

He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed, is equally an imperfect animal with the man who knows only the exercise of muscles.

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

There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.

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.

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.