The more equality there is established among men, the more virtue and happiness will reign in society.

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

Judicious books enlarge the mind and improve the heart.

Men with common minds seldom break through general rules. Prudence is ever the resort of weakness; and they rarely go as far as as they may in any undertaking, who are determined not to go beyond it on any account.

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

People thinking for themselves have more energy in their voice, than any government, which it is possible for human wisdom to invent; and every government not aware of this sacred truth will, at some period, be suddenly overturned.

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.