The despotism of custom is on the wane. We are not content to know that things are; we ask whether they ought to be.

The peculiarity of the evidence of mathematical truths is that all the argument is on one side.

The great creative individual . . . is capable of more wisdom and virtue than collective man ever can be.

The most important thing women have to do is to stir up the zeal of women themselves.

Customs are made for customary circumstances, and customary characters.

Liberty consists in doing what one desires.

if any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is to assume our own infallibility.