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.

Let woman share the rights and she will emulate the virtues of man; for she must grow more perfect when emancipated.

Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave?

When a man seduces a woman, it should, I think, be termed a left-handed marriage.

Life cannot be seen by an unmoved spectator.

My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.

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.