The conduct of an accountable being must be regulated by the operations of its own reason.

I begin to love this little creature, and to anticipate his birth as a fresh twist to a knot which I do not wish to untie. Men are spoilt by frankness, I believe, yet I must tell you that I love you better than I supposed I did, when I promised to love you forever....I feel it thrilling through my frame, giving and promising pleasure.

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

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

Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.

Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth.

In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.