Taste cannot be controlled by law. We must resist at all costs any attempt to regulate our individual freedoms and to legislate our personal moralities.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion.

Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.

The only thing a man can take beyond this lifetime is his ethics.

Female education ... has occupied my attention so far only as the education of my own daughters ... I thought it essential to give them a solid education which might enable them, when become mothers, to educate their own daughters, and even to direct the course for sons, should their fathers be.

What has been the effect of [religious] coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.