Life cannot be seen by an unmoved spectator.

Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.

The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.

No man chooses evil because it's evil. He only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

We cannot, without depraving our minds, endeavour to please a lover or husband, but in proportion as he pleases us.

Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world.

For any kind of reading I think better than leaving a blank still a blank, because the mind must receive a degree of enlargement and obtain a little strength by a slight exertion of its thinking powers; besides, even the productions that are only addressed to the imagination, raise the reader a little above the gross gratification of appetites, to which the mind has not given a shade of delicacy.