The mind will ever be unstable that has only prejudices to rest on, and the current will run with destructive fury when there are no barriers to break its force.
... wealth and female softness equally tend to debase mankind!
As a sex, women are habitually indolent; and every thing tends to make them so.
The conduct of an accountable being must be regulated by the operations of its own reason.
But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!
I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.