[A] man and still more the woman, who can be accused either of doing "what nobody does," or of not doing "what everybody does," is the subject of as much depreciatory remark as if he or she had committed some grave moral delinquency.

Truth emerges from the clash of adverse ideas.

To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.

Miracles have no claim whatever to the character of historical facts and are wholly invalid as evidence of any revelation.

The best state for human nature is that in which, while no one is poor, no one desires to be richer, nor has any reason to fear from thrust back, by the efforts of others to push themselves forward.

Trade is a social act. Whoever undertakes to sell any description of any goods to the public, does what affects the interest of other persons, and of society in general; and thus his conduct, in principal, comes within the jurisdiction of society.

God is a word to express, not our ideas, but the want of them.