In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.

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

Let not men then in the pride of power, use the same arguments that tyrannic kings and venal ministers have used, and fallaciously assert that women ought to be subjected because she has always been so.... It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity.... It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.

Executions, far from being useful examples to the survivors, have, I am persuaded, a quite contrary effect, by hardening the heart they ought to terrify. Besides, the fear of an ignominious death, I believe, never deterred anyone from the commission of a crime, because in committing it the mind is roused to activity about present circumstances.

True happiness must arise from well-regulated affections, and an affection includes a duty.

Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience; but, as blind obedience is ever sought for by power, tyrants and sensualists are in the right when they endeavor to keep women in the dark because, the former only want slaves, and the latter a play-thing.

In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.