Hereditary property sophisticates the mind, and the unfortunate victims to it ... swathed from their birth, seldom exert the locomotive faculty of body or mind; and, thus viewing every thing through one medium, and that a false one, they are unable to discern in what true merit and happiness consist.

In the education of women, the cultivation of the understanding is always subordinate to the acquirement of some corporeal accomplishment.

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.

I must be allowed to add some explanatory remarks to bring the subject home to reason-to that sluggish reason, which supinely takes opinions on trust, and obstinately supports them to spare itself the labour of thinking.

Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.

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.

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