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

If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?

The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized.

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

The beginning is always today.

If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.

The most perfect education ... is such an exercise of the understanding as is best calculated to strengthen the body and form the heart. Or, in other words, to enable the individual to attain such habits of virtue as will render it independent.