I begin to love this little creature, and to anticipate his birth as a fresh twist to a knot, which I do not wish to untie.

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.

I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.

I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to acquire strength, both of mind and body, and to convince them that the soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and refinement of taste, are almost synonymous with epithets of weakness, and that those beings are only the objects of pity, and that kind of love which has been termed its sister, will soon become objects of contempt.

The more equality there is established among men, the more virtue and happiness will reign in society.

At school boys become gluttons and slovens, and, instead of cultivating domestic affections, very early rush into the libertinism which destroys the constitution before it is formed; hardening the heart as it weakens the understanding.

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