We cannot, without depraving our minds, endeavour to please a lover or husband, but in proportion as he pleases us.

My husband - my king.

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

People thinking for themselves have more energy in their voice, than any government, which it is possible for human wisdom to invent; and every government not aware of this sacred truth will, at some period, be suddenly overturned.

The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.

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.

Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.