"The mind, in order to be strong, must be free."

"I shall be at a loss to discover why marriage has been called the tomb of love."

"The most perfect education, in my opinion, is such an exercise of the understanding as is best calculated to strengthen the body and form the heart."

"It is time to effect a revolution in female manners – time to restore to them their lost dignity – and make them, as a part of the human species, labour by reforming themselves to reform the world."

"How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?"