"Women do wrong to complain of the inequality of man-made laws; this inequality is not of man's making, or at any rate it is not the result of mere prejudice, but of reason."

"It is only the greatest crimes that need to be hidden."

"I detest the great, their condition, their maxims, their vices, and I should detest them still more if I were one of them."

"There are no morals in nature."

"The only good political institutions are those which are capable of making a people change, and of inspiring in them a love of virtue."