With equality of experience and of general faculties, a woman usually sees much more than a man of what is immediately before her.

Judgement is given to men that they may use it. Because it may be used erroneously, are men to be told that they ought not to use it at all?

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.

It is a law, that every event depends on some law.

I have a hundred times heard him say, that all ages and nations have represented their gods as wicked, in a constantly increasing progression; that mankind have gone on adding trait after trait till they reached the most perfect conception of wickedness which the human mind could devise, and have called this God, and prostrated themselves before it.

All free communities have both been more exempt from social injustice and crime, and have attained more brilliant prosperity, than any others, or than they themselves after they have lost their freedom.

The ne plus ultra of wickedness ... is embodied in what is commonly presented to mankind as the creed of Christianity.