In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.

It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should only be organised dust - ready to fly abroad the moment the spring snaps, or the spark goes out, which kept it together. Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream.

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.

The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.

The two sexes mutually corrupt and improve each other.

I never wanted but your heart--that gone, you have nothing more to give.

Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience; but, as blind obedience is ever sought for by power, tyrants and sensualists are in the right when they endeavor to keep women in the dark because, the former only want slaves, and the latter a play-thing.