The flexible muscles growing daily more rigid give character to the countenance ; that is, they trace the operations of the mind with the iron pen of fate, and tell us not only what powers are within, but how they have been employed.

But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!

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

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

The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.

Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.

The power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions from individual observations, is the only acquirement, for an immortal being, that really deserves the name of knowledge.