It is the preservation of the species, not of individuals, which appears to be the design of Deity throughout the whole of nature.

What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave his perishable substance to save himself from the dark torments of purgatory; and found it more convenient to indulge his depraved appetites, and pay an exorbitant price for absolution, than listen to the suggestions of reason, and work out his own salvation: in a word, was not the separation of religion from morality the work of the priests...?

Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.

The mind will ever be unstable that has only prejudices to rest on, and the current will run with destructive fury when there are no barriers to break its force.

No man chooses evil because it's evil. He only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

When man, governed by reasonable laws, enjoys his natural freedom, let him despise woman, if she do not share it with him.

My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.