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

... 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.

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

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.

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.

No man can see his own prejudices.

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.