"Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; – that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers."

"It is a significant indication of the present state of society, that the greater part of the women, who have any independence of mind, are found in the lower classes."

"The most holy band of society is friendship."

"The being who can govern itself, has an empire which the most despotic monarch cannot boast."

"I have a soul that is too generous to be selfish."