In this metropolis a number of lurking leeches infamously gain subsistence by practicing on the credulity of women.

Society can only be happy and free in proportion as it is virtuous.

Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks.

Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished.

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...?

... we never do any thing well, unless we love it for its own sake.

The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.