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

How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?

A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse

Age demands respect; youth, love.

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.

Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense.

The birthright of man ... is such a degree of liberty, civil and religious, as is compatible with the liberty of every other individual with whom he is united in a social compact.