The mind will ever be unstable that has only prejudices to rest on.

I think schools, as they are now regulated, the hot-beds of vice and folly, and the knowledge of human nature supposedly attained there, merely cunning selfishness.

A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind

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

Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time.

How frequently has melancholy and even misanthropy taken possession of me, when the world has disgusted me, and friends have proven unkind. I have then considered myself as a particle broken off from the grand mass of mankind.

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.