So much barbarism, however, still remains in the transactions of most civilized nations, that almost all independent countries choose to assert their nationality by having, to their inconvenience and that of their neighbors, a peculiar currency of their own.

Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house.

We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.

Customs are made for customary circumstances, and customary characters.

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

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

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.