Law is not law, if it violates the principles of eternal justice.

The rarest attainment is to grow old happily and gracefully.

the excess of all good things is mischievous.

I think every individual, and every society, is perfected just in proportion to the combination, and cooperation, of masculine and feminine elements of character. He is the most perfect man who is affectionate as well as intellectual; and she is the most perfect woman who is intellectual as well as affectionate. Every art and science becomes more interesting, viewed both from the masculine and feminine points of view.

Prejudices of all kinds have their strongest holds in the minds of the vulgar and the ignorant.

I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book.

Even if nothing worse than wasted mental effort could be laid to the charge of theology, that alone ought to be sufficient to banish it from the earth ... What a vast amount of labour and learning has been expended, as uselessly as emptying shallow puddles into sieves! How much intellect has been employed mousing after texts, to sustain preconceived doctrines!