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.

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

We have ... dreamed so much and observed so little, that our imaginations have grown larger than the world we live in, and our judgments have dwindled down to a point.

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

No man can see his own prejudices.

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

I never walked through the streets of any city with as much satisfaction as those of Philadelphia. The neatness and cleanliness of all animate and inanimate things, houses, pavements, and citizens, is not to be surpassed.