Society can only be happy and free in proportion as it is virtuous.

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.

How frequently has melancholy and even misanthropy taken possession of me, when the world has disgusted me, and friends have proven unkind. I have then considered myself as a particle broken off from the grand mass of mankind.

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

It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that they were created rather to feel than reason, and that all the power they obtain must be obtained by their charms and weaknesses.

... we never do any thing well, unless we love it for its own sake.

The endeavor to keep alive any hoary establishment beyond its natural date is often pernicious and always useless.