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

... it would be impossible for women to stand in higher estimation than they do here. The deference that is paid to them at all times and in all places has often occasioned me as much surprise as pleasure.

the language of truth is too simple for inexperienced ears.

Trust me, there are as many ways of living as there are men, and one is no more fit to lead another, than a bird to lead a fish, or a fish a quadruped.

How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge; not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers.

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

Equality! Where is it, if not in education? Equal rights! They cannot exist without equality of instruction.